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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Melbourne, FL

November 13, 1997Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 13, 1997, 3:49 PM EST for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 13, 1997, 3:49 PM EST (20:49 UTC)
Expired
Nov 13, 1997, 4:20 PM EST
In force
31 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 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 27 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-11-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 680 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-11-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 210 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
680 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
6.0

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The text

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

855 
WFUS01 KMLB 132050 RRA
TORMLB
FLC009-132120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
349 PM EST THU NOV 13 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 420 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

   ...BREVARD COUNTY
 
AT 347 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO DEVELOPING 2 MILES WEST
OF MELBOURNE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...RESIDENTS OF
MELBOURNE NORTH OF EAU GUALLIE ROAD SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 13, 3:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard44 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.