Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1997, 9:37 AM EST for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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
- Oct 27, 1997, 9:37 AM EST (14:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1997, 10:20 AM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 9:40 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Groveland, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees south of S.R. 50 just east of Groveland. |
| Oct 27, 9:50 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lisbon, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Lisbon. |
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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLB 271437 RRA TORMLB FLC069-271520- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 937 AM EST MON OCT 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY AT 935 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF BAY LAKE. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY THROUGH 1015 AM. THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE AS IT MOVED THROUGH THE TAMPA BAY AREA. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 9:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 62 min |
| Oct 27, 9:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Seminole | 61 min |
| Oct 27, 10:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 58 min |
| Oct 27, 10:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 62 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.