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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL

January 7, 1995Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 7, 1995, 8:32 AM EST for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 7, 1995, 8:32 AM EST (13:32 UTC)
Expired
Jan 7, 1995, 9:15 AM EST
In force
43 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 13:36 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, 1.5 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 1995-01-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1881 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 1995-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 215 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1881 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.4
Supercell composite
9.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMLB 071334
TORMLB
FLC095-071415-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
832 AM EST SAT JAN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY
 
...AT 830 AM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED REPORTS OF A
TORNADO IN WESTERN ORLANDO. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE
ORLANDO AREA.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER IF AVAILABLE.  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.
 
 
PETERSEN
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 5:14 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBMarion61 min
Jan 7, 6:10 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBLake65 min
Jan 7, 6:41 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBFlagler64 min
Jan 7, 11:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOkeechobee42 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.