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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 55 min. 2 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
- May 9, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 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 21:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Winter Park, FL | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Winter Park. |
| May 9, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Orlando, FL | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Orlando. |
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, 9.1 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
- 870 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
984 WUUS52 KMLB 092105 SVRMLB FLC095-092200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 505 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ORANGE COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT. * AT 458 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR AZALEA PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS JUST NORTH OF THE MAGIC KINGDOM MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR SEA WORLD AND OAK RIDGE BY 515 PM AND NEAR DOWNTOWN ORLANDO AROUND 530 PM. 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. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 2853 8165 2836 8165 2853 8124 2863 8135
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 67 min |
| May 9, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 58 min |
| May 9, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 37 min |
| May 9, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 61 min |
| May 9, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 59 min |
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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.