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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 12, 1997Osceola County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1997, 2:24 PM EDT for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 61 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
Jun 12, 1997, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1997, 3:25 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Osceola County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2959 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
2959 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

063 
WUUS01 KMLB 121829 RRA
SVRMLB
FLC097-121925-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
224 PM EDT THU JUN 12 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

   ...WESTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY
 
AT 220 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN KISSIMMEE. QUARTER INCH HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH
THIS STORM. THROUGH 320 PM...THE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE
KISSIMMEE...INTERCESSION CITY...ST CLOUD...AND LAKE TOHO.
 
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
DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

PETERSEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard54 min
Jun 12, 4:20 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBBrevard30 min
Jun 12, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola64 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.