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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 18, 1995Indian River County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1995, 1:06 PM EST for Indian River County, Florida. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 1995, 1:06 PM EST (18:06 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 1995, 2:15 PM EST
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Indian River County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 1995-03-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 104 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 1995-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-562 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 18, 12:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBLake, Orange, Osceola61 min
Mar 18, 1:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBPalm Beach56 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.