Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 8:24 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 51 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
- May 27, 1997, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 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 00:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Cape Canaveral, FL | Thunderstorm winds produced a wind gust to 64 mph at Cape Canaveral. |
| May 27, 8:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Melbourne, FL | Dime size hail fell in Melbourne. |
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 00:00Z, 0.4 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
- 1630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1077 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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 280024 RRA SVRMLB FLC009-FLZ501-280110- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 824 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...BREVARD COUNTY AT 823 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER OSCEOLA COUNTY NEAR HOLOPAW AND DEER PARK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL APPROACH BREAVRD COUNTY FROM THE NORTHWEST. GUSTY WINDS FROM 40 TO NEAR 58 MPH HAVE BEEN INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS FROM COCOA...TO PATRICK AFB...SOUTH TO MELBOURNE/PALM BAY AND SEBASTIAN INLET. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE OR IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONGl BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SHARP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 60 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.