Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 1986, 3:00 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 1986, 3:00 PM EST (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 1986, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Flagler, Volusia | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 8:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Marion | 52 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.