Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 44, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1998, 6:43 AM EDT for Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 25, 1998, 6:43 AM EDT (10:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1998, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Lucie County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 25, 6:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
444
WFUS01 KMLB 251044 RRA
TORMLB
FLC111-251145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
643 AM EDT FRI SEP 25 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ST. LUCIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 745 AM EDT
* AT 642 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADIC CIRCULATION 12 MILES WEST OF
STUART NEAR THE MARTIN/ST LUCIE COUNTY BORDER. MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NORTHWEST THROUGH THE CENTER OF ST LUCIE
COUNTY.
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.
SHARPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 6:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Martin | 30 min |
| Sep 25, 7:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Okeechobee | 62 min |
| Sep 25, 7:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Martin | 61 min |
| Sep 25, 8:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Martin, Saint Lucie | 115 min |
| Sep 25, 10:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 67 min |
| Sep 25, 10:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 66 min |
| Sep 25, 11:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 56 min |
| Sep 25, 12:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 59 min |
| Sep 25, 12:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 57 min |
| Sep 25, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 65 min |
| Sep 25, 1:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 58 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.