Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 45, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1998, 7:23 AM EDT for Okeechobee 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, 7:23 AM EDT (11:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1998, 8:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okeechobee County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:25 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS01 KMLB 251125 RRA
TORMLB
FLC093-251225-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
723 AM EDT FRI SEP 25 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
OKEECHOBEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 825 AM EDT
* AT 725 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT DRUM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT
20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR FORT DRUM AT 735 AM...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH
OR CULVERT.The 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, 6:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 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 |
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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.