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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 8, 1995Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1995, 8:25 AM EST for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 8, 1995, 8:25 AM EST (13:25 UTC)
Expired
Mar 8, 1995, 9:15 AM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Orange County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 1995-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2173 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 1995-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMLB 081325 RRA
SVRMLB
FLC095-081415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
825 AM EST WED MAR 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...ORANGE COUNTY
 
AT 822 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF DISNEY
WORLD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE
AFFECTING MUCH OF WESTERN ORANGE COUNTY THROUGH 9 AM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE READY TO GO
TO A SAFE PLACE IF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE TOWARD YOUR AREA,
ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 7:31 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBMarion59 min
Mar 8, 8:58 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange, Seminole47 min
Mar 8, 9:15 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBFlagler60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.