Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1998, 2:07 AM EST for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 63 min. 2 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
- Mar 9, 1998, 2:07 AM EST (07:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1998, 3:10 AM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:20 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Cocoa Beach, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and damaged the roof of a high school building in Cocoa Beach. |
| Mar 9, 2:29 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 64 | Patrick Afb, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down traffic signals and produced a gust to 74 mph at Patrick AFB. |
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, 7.1 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
- 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 090707 RRA TORMLB FLC009-090810- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 207 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 310 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...BREVARD COUNTY AT 205 AM...DOPPLER RADAR IN MELBOURNE INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF DEER PARK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT AREAS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH BREVARD COUNTY FROM VIERA AND ROCKLEDGE TO PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE BETWEEN 230 AND 245 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, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 48 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
Tornado Warnings in Florida, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998
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.