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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL

February 25, 1992Seminole County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 1992, 4:44 PM EST for Seminole County, Florida. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 25, 1992, 4:44 PM EST (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Feb 25, 1992, 5:28 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Seminole County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-02-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 664 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-02-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMLB 252144
TORMLB
FLC117-252245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
444 PM EST TUE FEB 25 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...SEMINOLE COUNTY
 
AT 440 PM A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NORTH OF ORLANDO. THERE
HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DAMAGE TO MOTORHOMES AND CARS IN THE
ORLANDO AREA. INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED.
 
THIS STORM IS MOVING INTO SEMINOLE COUNTY TORWARD SANFORD.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. M OTHERWISE
GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID
WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR
GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 25, 4:02 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBOrange, Osceola43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.