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SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
805 PM EDT SAT SEP 25 2004

...BAND OF DESTRUCTIVE WINDS POISED TO POUND THE COASTAL COUNTIES
FROM VERO BEACH SOUTHWARD...
...SCATTERED HEAVY SQUALLS WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH MOVING ONSHORE
BREVARD COUNTY..

AT 800 PM...MELBOURNE RADAR INDICATED THE CIRCULATION CENTER OF
STRONG HURRICANE JEANNE WAS LOCATED 75 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VERO
BEACH. NUMEROUS INTENSE OUTER RAINBANDS WERE NOW BEGINNING TO IMPACT
THE COASTLINE SOUTH OF SEBASTIAN INLET. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
BECOME WIDESPREAD FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...WITH WIND GUSTS
BECOMING INCREASINGLY DESTRUCTIVE WITH EACH PASSING SQUALL. WINDS
GUSTS OF 75 TO 85 MPH ARE LIKELY THROUGH 900 PM...WITH GUSTS OF 85
TO 100 MPH EXPECTED IN THE 900 PM TO MIDNIGHT PERIOD. THE RAINFALL
AND SQUALLS WILL SPIRAL WELL INLAND ACROSS ST. LUCIE AND MARTIN
COUNTIES WITH WINDS GUSTS INLAND REACHING 50 TO 70 MPH.

FARTHER NORTH ALONG THE COASTLINE OF BREVARD COUNTY...OCCASIONAL FAST
MOVING SQUALLS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 55 TO 65 MPH AND PERIODS OF
HEAVY RAIN.

OVER INLAND AREAS AND VOLUSIA COUNTY...QUICK PASSING SHOWERS AND
AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN WILL PRODUCE OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40
MPH. STEADY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WILL IMPACT
OKEECHOBEE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES THROUGH MID EVENING...WITH
DETERIORATING CONDITIONS LIKELY AFTER 1000 PM.

AT 750 PM...OBSERVATIONS ALONG THE COAST INDICATED WIND GUSTS
GENERALLY 45 TO 65 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS DURING THE PASSAGE OF
HEAVY SHOWERS. AN UNOFFICIAL WEATHER OBSERVATION SITE...ELEVATED
ON TOP OF A LARGE BUILDING AT JENSEN BEACH...REPORTED A PEAK WIND
GUST TO 81 MPH BETWEEN 645 PM AND 745 PM.


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