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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Melbourne, FL

February 22, 1998Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 1998, 10:22 PM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 53 min. 4 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
Feb 22, 1998, 10:22 PM EST (03:22 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 1998, 11:15 PM EST
In force
53 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 03:26 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 22, 10:33 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 60Glenwood, FLThunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees west of Glenwood.
Feb 22, 10:38 PM ESTHail 1.75De Leon Spgs, FL
Feb 22, 10:40 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 55De Leon Spgs, FLThunderstorm winds blew down trees in a rural area five miles east of De Leon Springs.
Feb 22, 10:55 PM ESTTornado F2Daytona Beach, FLThe first tornado in a major tornado outbreak set down along Route 92 about 5 miles southwest of Daytona Beach. The category F2 tornado moved about 8 miles to the northeast passing over the junction of Interstate 95 and Interstate 4 and finally lifted in the s

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 22, 9:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1998-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1998-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -91 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

754 
WFUS01 KMLB 230323 RRA
TORMLB
FLC127-230415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1022 PM EST SUN FEB 22 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

   ...VOLUSIA COUNTY
 
AT 1015 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A
POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY NEAR ALTOONA...
MOVING TOWARDS PITTMAN AND ASTOR PARK. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO
WESTERN VOLUSIA COUNTY SOUTH OF LAKE GEORGE AND WILL MOVE TO NEAR
PIERSON AND BARBERVILLE BETWEEN 1030 AND 1040 PM.
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 9:45 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBLake65 min
Feb 22, 11:20 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBVolusia45 min
Feb 22, 11:27 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBLake63 min
Feb 22, 11:37 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBOrange63 min
Feb 22, 11:56 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBSeminole59 min
Feb 23, 12:14 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBVolusia61 min
Feb 23, 12:21 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningMLBVolusia3 hr
Feb 23, 12:22 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBOsceola58 min
Feb 23, 12:40 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningMLBOrange, Seminole3 hr
Feb 23, 12:40 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBOrange45 min
Feb 23, 1:19 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBOrange, Osceola61 min
Feb 23, 1:23 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBBrevard62 min
Feb 23, 2:27 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBBrevard48 min
Feb 23, 3:04 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBOsceola56 min
Feb 23, 3:16 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBBrevard59 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.