Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 52, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1998, 1:15 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 65 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, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1998, 2:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 2959 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
640
WFUS01 KMLB 251717 RRA
TORMLB
FLC009-251820-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
115 PM EDT FRI SEP 25 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 220 PM EDT
* AT 113 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SPIRAL BAND FROM HURRICANE GEORGE WITH CONTAINS SEVERAL ROTATING
STORMS FROM THE COAST NEAR GRANT AND EXTENDING 25 MILES OFFSHORE
SEBASTIAN INLET. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
* THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL MOVE ONSHORE COASTAL AREAS FROM
FLORIDANA BEACH TO INDIALANTIC THROUGH 220 PM.
THESE STROMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADIC DAMAGE AND
WATERSPOUTS OVER INDIAN RIVER COUNTY.
THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED BRIEF TORNADO FORMATION IS VERY HIGH
ACROSS BREVARD COUNTY. SHORT LIVED TORNADOES MAY OCCUR WITH
LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
LOCALLY SEVERE WEATHER.
CRISTALDI
&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, 7:23 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, 1:27 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.