Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 1998, 3:46 PM EST for Orange County, Seminole County, Florida. It was in force for 59 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
- Feb 16, 1998, 3:46 PM EST (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1998, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 518 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
174 WFUS01 KMLB 162047 RRA TORMLB FLC095-117-162145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 346 PM EST MON FEB 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...SEMINOLE COUNTY ...EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY AT 345 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC SIGNATURE OVER EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF THE BEELINE EXPRESSWAY. THE STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH ACRROSS THE BEELINE...TOWARDS BITHLO...THEN INTO SEMINOLE COUNTY EAST OF OVIEDO AND NEAR GENEVA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS ALONG ITS TRACK. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES CAN BE TOSSED ABOUT BY TORNADO WINDS. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR VEHICLE. ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES WHEN THREATENED BY A TORNADO AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. SPRATT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Martin, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 2:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange | 66 min |
| Feb 16, 2:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 61 min |
| Feb 16, 3:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange, Seminole | 48 min |
| Feb 16, 3:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 60 min |
| Feb 16, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 60 min |
| Feb 16, 4:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 43 min |
| Feb 16, 4:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 65 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.