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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 27, 2000Osceola County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2000, 11:22 AM EST for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 53 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
Mar 27, 2000, 11:22 AM EST (16:22 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 2000, 12:15 PM EST
In force
53 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 16:26 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 nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 376 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
376 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMLB 271624
SVRMLB
FLC097-271715-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1122 AM EST MON MAR 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY
  ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1215 PM EST.

* AT 1121 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF PINE GROVE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF NARCOOSSEE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

OSCEOLA COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A VEHICLE OVERTURNED 
DUE TO WINDS FROM THIS STORM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF
THE STORM APPROACHES YOU...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.

$$

LAT...LON 2829 8120 2816 8117 2816 8086 2834 8088

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 4:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard36 min
Mar 27, 6:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBVolusia53 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.