Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min. 3 reports 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
- Apr 16, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 6:55 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Orlando, FL | |
| Apr 16, 6:55 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Maitland, FL | |
| Apr 16, 7:08 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Union Park, FL |
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 nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 162217 SVRMLB FLC095-162315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 615 PM EDT SUN APR 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ORANGE COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 607 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AZALEA PARK AT 625 PM EDT... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF UNION PARK AT 635 PM EDT... NEAR BITHLO AT 700 PM EDT. LARGE HAIL...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 67 min |
| Apr 16, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 60 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.