Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 1999, 1:03 AM EST for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 1999, 1:03 AM EST (06:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 1999, 1:35 AM EST
- In force
- 32 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 06:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 1:10 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Deer Park, FL | A spotter measured a wind gust of 70 mph with home based equipment. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999
WFUS01 KMLB 030604 RRA
TORMLB
FLC097-030635-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
103 AM EST SUN JAN 3 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL AND EASTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 135 AM EST
* AT 105 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR NEW EDEN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT NORTHEAST OSCEOLA COUNTY ALONG
STATE ROADS 532 AND 419 THROUGH 135 AM
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.The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 11:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 62 min |
| Jan 3, 12:10 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange, Seminole | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 12:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 61 min |
| Jan 3, 12:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange, Osceola, Seminole | 62 min |
| Jan 3, 1:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 60 min |
| Jan 3, 1:31 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 1:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Okeechobee | 64 min |
| Jan 3, 2:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River, Saint Lucie | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.