Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1998, 6:06 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 64 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
- Sep 2, 1998, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1998, 7:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Orlando, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Orlando. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
961
WFUS01 KMLB 022208 RRA
TORMLB
FLC095-022310-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
606 PM EDT WED SEP 2 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 710 PM EDT
* AT 605 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. MOVEMENT
WAS NORTH AT 25 MPH.
* THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE EASTERN ORLANDO METROPOLITAN AREAS
THROUGH 645 PM.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS
OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE OR IN
MOBILE HOMES SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
TT/SHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 66 min |
| Sep 2, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 62 min |
| Sep 2, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Seminole | 62 min |
| Sep 2, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard, Volusia | 60 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.