Sunny warm weather brought a lot of people to the beach in Brevard County. A moderate swell produced numerous rip currents.
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The episode as NWS MLB wrote it up.
Sunny warm weather brought a lot of people to the beach in Brevard County. A moderate swell produced numerous rip currents.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 15, 8:35 AM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 935 AM EDT MON SEP 15 2008 .DISCUSSION... MORNING SOUNDINGS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGES/RUC ANALYSIS INDICATE MORE MOISTENING HAS OCCURRED OVER WESTERN PENINSULA WHICH IS MORE INFLUENCED BY EASTERN SIDE OF MID/UPPER TROF AXIS OVER GULF WHILE EASTERN PENINSULA STILL INFLUENCED BY BACK SIDE OF RIDGE ALOFT. MODEL FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE A GRADUAL MOISTENING EAST SIDE OF STATE THROUGH TONIGHT. SOUNDINGS AND SURFACE ANALYSIS ALSO INDICATE THE EASTERLIES THAT PREVAILED OVER THE WEEKEND HAVE DIMINISHED WITH WEAK HIGH PRESSURE OVER AREA AND RELATIVELY WEAK FLOW THROUGH LOWER AND MID LEVELS. THIS WILL ALLOW SEA BREEZE BOUNDARIES TO DEVELOP AND DRIFT INLAND FROM BOTH COASTS. BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIP TODAY WILL BE LATE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE INTERIOR SECTIONS AS THESE BOUNDARIES COLLIDE. MORNING SUNSHINE WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO CLIMB INTO LOWER 90S INTERIOR AND TOPPING OUT IN THE UPPER 80S NEAR THE EAST COAST BEFORE THE SEA BREEZE SETS IN. CURRENT FORECAST HAS A GOOD HANDLE ON THIS SCENARIO AND NO SIG CHANGES PLANNED. && .AVIATION...CONTD VFR THROUGH 18Z ALL SITES. 18Z-20Z...EXPECT ISOLD TEMPO REDUCTIONS IN TSRA NEAR THE EAST COAST...AFT 20Z EXPECT VFR EAST COAST BUT TEMPO REDUCTIONS SHIFTING INLAND WITH SCT TSRA. MOST ACTIVITY ENDING AND A RETURN TO PREVAILING VFR AFT 02Z. && .MARINE...LIGHT WSW FLOW THIS MORNING WILL BECOME ONSHORE ARND 10KT NEAR THE EAST COAST THIS AFTERNOON WITH SEA BREEZE CIRCULATION. SEAS AOB 2 FT NEAR SHORE AND 2-3 FT OFFSHORE WATERS. && .HYDROLOGY...A SLOW FALL IN RIVER LEVELS IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE OVER THE MIDDLE ST JOHNS RIVER BASIN DURING THE UPCOMING WEEK...BUT THE RIVER FORECAST POINTS WILL CONTINUE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. FOR THE LATEST INFO ON ST JOHNS RIVER SEE THE RIVER FLOOD STATEMENT /MIAFLSMLB/. && .MLB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. && GLITTO/WIMMER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 505 AM EDT MON SEP 15 2008 AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141- 144-147-152115- COASTAL WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SEBASTIAN INLET TO JUPITER INLET OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- WATERS FROM VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- WATERS FROM SEBASTIAN INLET TO JUPITER INLET 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD- OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA- SOUTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN BREVARD- 505 AM EDT MON SEP 15 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...RIP CURRENT IMPACT... A LINGERING EAST SWELL AND AN ASTRONOMICAL HIGH TIDE WILL ENHANCE THE RIP CURRENT THREAT ALONG EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA BEACHES TODAY. THE THREAT WILL BE HIGHEST BETWEEN 8:00 AM AND 2:30 PM DURING THE OUTGOING TIDE. REMEMBER TO SWIM WITHIN SIGHT OF A LIFEGUARD AND DO NOT SWIM ALONE. ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW BOTH THE EAST AND WEST COAST SEABREEZES TO FORM AND PUSH WELL INLAND TODAY...WHILE INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL ALLOW THE NUMBER OF STORMS TO INCREASE OVER RECENT DAYS. ISOLATED STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG THE EAST COAST BOUNDARY AS IT PUSHES INLAND. STORMS WILL INCREASE IN NUMBER OVER THE INTERIOR COUNTIES DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS AS THE EAST COAST BREEZE BEGINS TO INTERACT WITH THE WEST COAST BREEZE. REMEMBER THAT LIGHTNING MAKES EVERY THUNDERSTORM A POTENTIAL KILLER. MOVE INDOORS IF LIGHTNING IS SEEN OR IF THUNDER IS HEARD. ...RIVER FLOOD IMPACT... RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE MIDDLE ST JOHNS RIVER. RIVER FLOODING ALONG THE ST JOHNS AT GENEVA...SANFORD...DELAND AND ASTOR WILL CONTINUE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SCATTERED LIGHTNING STORMS ARE EXPECTED BY MID WEEK AS MOISTURE LEVELS CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. BRAGAW
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A moderate swell produced a high number of rip currents in Brevard County. Local life guards reported dozens of rescues in the afternoon.
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