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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 1, 1997Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1997, 12:38 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 47 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 1, 1997, 12:38 PM EDT (16:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1997, 1:25 PM EDT
In force: 47 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 16:41 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 1, 12:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	De Bary, FL	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees that knocked down power lines in DeBary.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 11:45 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMLB 011639 RRA
TORMLB
FLC127-FLZ501-011725-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1238 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 125 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

   ...VOLUSIA COUNTY
 
AT 1235 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING
NEAR LAKE ASHBY. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
EDGEWATER...NEW SMYRNA BEACH AND PONCE INLET ARE ALL IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.

 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE
HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
THE SAFEST PLACE IS AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS.


CRISTALDI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 1:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	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.