Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 53, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1998, 1:27 PM EDT for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 58 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, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1998, 2:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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.
660
WFUS01 KMLB 251729 RRA
TORMLB
FLC097-251825-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
127 PM EDT FRI SEP 25 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 225 PM EDT
* AT 122 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO NEAR THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE 10 MILES SOUTH OF HOLOPAW.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
SOUTHERN ST CLOUD BETWEEN 145 AND 200 PM.
WEST LAKE TOHO BETWEEN 200 AND 210 PM.
EARLIER STORMS PRODUCE A CONFIRMED TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ALONG CANOE
CREEK ROAD 8 MILES SOUTH OF ST CLOUD AROUND 113 PM. NO DAMAGE WAS
REPORTED.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN
A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN
A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
&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, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 65 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.