Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 23, 1998, 3:16 AM EST for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 59 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
- Feb 23, 1998, 3:16 AM EST (08:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 1998, 4:15 AM EST
- In force
- 59 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 08:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 906 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 14.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLB 230816 RRA TORMLB AMZ550-555-FLC009-230915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 316 AM EST MON FEB 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...BREVARD COUNTY AT 315 AM EST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL OSCEOLA COUNTY ABOUT SEVEN MILES NORTHWEST OF KENANSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM AND OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BREVARD COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES OVER BREVARD COUNTY WILL BE SOUTH OF CAPE CANAVERAL NEAR PATRICK AFB...ROCKLEDGE...AND MELBOURNE. 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 pFLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. SHARP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 9:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 65 min |
| Feb 22, 10:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 11:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 11:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 63 min |
| Feb 22, 11:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 63 min |
| Feb 22, 11:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Seminole | 59 min |
| Feb 23, 12:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 61 min |
| Feb 23, 12:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Volusia | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 12:22 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 58 min |
| Feb 23, 12:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Orange, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 12:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 45 min |
| Feb 23, 1:19 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange, Osceola | 61 min |
| Feb 23, 1:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 62 min |
| Feb 23, 2:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 48 min |
| Feb 23, 3:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.