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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Melbourne, FL

May 22, 1997Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1997, 3:00 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
May 22, 1997, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1997, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
45 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 19:04 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 938 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
938 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMLB 221900 RRA
SVRMLB
FLC095-221945-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
300 PM EDT THU MAY 22 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

   ...ORANGE COUNTY
 
AT 250 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER THE ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ONE INCH HAIL
AND WIND GUST TO 70 MPH WERE REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR
EAST LAKE TOHO AND POSSIBLY TO NARCOOSEE AND ST CLOUD.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF A STRONG BUILDING. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER CONVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange61 min
May 22, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola61 min
May 22, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.