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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 7, 1996Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 1996, 5:56 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 7, 1996, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Oct 7, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 1996-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1481 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 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
1481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
5.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMLB 072157
TORMLB
FLC127-072300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
556 PM EDT MON OCT 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...VOLUSIA COUNTY
 
AT 554 PM...WEATHER RADAR AT MELBOURNE INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO
ALONG THE LAKE/VOLUSIA COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WILL MOVE RAPIDLY
NORTHEAST 35 MPH TOWARDS GLENWOOD AND DE LEON SPRINGS AROUND 610 PM. A
SECOND TORNADO MAY FORM IN THE VICINITY OF DELAND. SIMILAR RADAR
INDICATES HAVE PRODUCED TOUCHDOWNS WITH DAMAGE EARLIER TODAY.
 
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.
 
SPRATT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 7, 8:45 AM EDTTornado WarningMLBVolusia60 min
Oct 7, 3:30 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBLake60 min
Oct 7, 4:27 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBLake63 min
Oct 7, 4:39 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBSeminole66 min
Oct 7, 5:04 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBVolusia56 min
Oct 7, 7:03 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBOkeechobee57 min
Oct 7, 7:51 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBIndian River39 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.