Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1997, 10:07 AM EST for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 58 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
- Oct 27, 1997, 10:07 AM EST (15:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1997, 11:05 AM EST
- In force
- 58 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 15:06 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, 10:36 AM EST | Hail 1 | Kissimmee, FL |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 271506 RRA TORMLB FLC097-271605- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1007 AM EST MON OCT 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1105 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...OSCEOLA COUNTY AT 1006 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT TO ENTER WESTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY NEAR INTERCESSION CITY. THE STORM CONTAINING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL MOVE ACROSS KISSIMMEE/ST. CLOUD AND THE ATTRACTIONS AREA OF NORTHWEST OSCEOLA COUNTY BEGINNING AROUND 1010 AM. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE SHELTER NOW! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CUL|VERT. CRISTALDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 9:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 43 min |
| 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, 10:13 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.