Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1996, 3:11 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1996, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:15 PM EDT | Hail 2 | Lake Poinsett, FL | |
| Jun 8, 3:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLB 081912 TORMLB FLC009-081945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 311 PM EDT SAT JUN 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...BREVARD COUNTY AT 310 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN MELBOURNE INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COCOA. THE STORM WILL MOVE TOWARD THE COAST NEAR CAPE CANAVERAL THROUGH 345 PM. PERSONS IN THIS AREA SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River | 58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.