Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 1998, 9:48 PM EST for Okeechobee County, Florida. It was in force for 57 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
- Feb 2, 1998, 9:48 PM EST (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 1998, 10:45 PM EST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okeechobee County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 10:20 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Okeechobee, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in the town of Okeechobee. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 10:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Martin, Saint Lucie | 66 min |
| Feb 2, 10:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 63 min |
| Feb 2, 11:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 34 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.