Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 1997, 1:44 PM EDT for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 11, 1997, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1997, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 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 17:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 1:58 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Kissimmee Park, FL | A waterspout/tornado came on shore on the southeast shore of West Lake Tohopekaliga and damaged a few trees. |
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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 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 111744 RRA TORMLB FLC097-111815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 144 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...NORTHERN OSCEOLA COUNTY AT 142 PM FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL REPORTED A TORNADO OVER LAKE TOHO. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARDS SOUTH POINT COMMUNITY ON THE SOUTHERN END OF LAKE TOHO. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE OR IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 48 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.