Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1998, 1:32 AM EST for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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
- Mar 9, 1998, 1:32 AM EST (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1998, 2:20 AM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osceola County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:50 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Kissimmee, FL | A category F2 tornado touched down briefly in the western part of Kissimmee producing minor damage to about 40 mobile homes. Most of the damage was to carports and awnings. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLB 090632 RRA TORMLB FLC097-090720- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 132 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 220 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...OSCEOLA COUNTY AT 130 AM...DOPPLER RADAR IN MELBOURNE INDICATED A TORNADO IN EASTERN POLK COUNTY. THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AND WILL REACH LAKE KISSIMMEE BETWEEN 140 AND 145 AM... AND SHOULD REACH NEAR HOLOPAW BY 200 AM. ANOTHER TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR NEAR AVON PARK. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING QUICKLY NORTHEAST AND COULD AFFECT KENANSVILLE AFTER 200 AM. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Volusia | 59 min |
| Mar 9, 12:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 64 min |
| Mar 9, 2:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 3:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Okeechobee | 31 min |
| Mar 9, 3:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 50 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.