Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 1:35 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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 13, 1997, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 2:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 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 17:38 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 13, 2:01 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cocoa Beach, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down street signs, a chain link fence and a solar panel. |
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, 5.6 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
- 1838 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
947 WUUS01 KMLB 131735 RRA SVRMLB FLC009-FLZ501-131840- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 135 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...BREVARD COUNTY AT 130 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER RT 520 WEST OF COCOA. THROUGH 240 PM THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TOWARDS COCOA AND SHARPES. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER BREVARD COUNTY MAY BECOME SEVERE. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 59 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.