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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Melbourne, FL

April 16, 2000Saint Lucie County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2000, 3:23 PM EDT for Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 67 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
Apr 16, 2000, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Saint Lucie County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 2000-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMLB 161924
SVRMLB
FLC111-162030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
323 PM EDT SUN APR 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ST. LUCIE COUNTY
  ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT.

* AT 318 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF SAINT LUCIE WEST...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES WEST OF PORT SAINT LUCIE...MOVING EAST AT 8 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR SAINT LUCIE WEST AT 405 PM EDT
  NEAR INDIAN RIVER ESTATES...PORT SAINT LUCIE RIVER PARK...WALTON...
  6 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE CITY AT 425 PM EDT

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.

$$
SHARP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola59 min
Apr 16, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange60 min
Apr 16, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSeminole60 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.