Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2000, 6:37 PM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 53 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
- Mar 27, 2000, 6:37 PM EST (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2000, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:55 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Glenwood, FL | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Lake Dexter. |
| Mar 27, 6:58 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Pierson, FL | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees on a house near Pierson. |
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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 272337 SVRMLB FLC127-280030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 637 PM EST MON MAR 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN VOLUSIA COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 730 PM EST. * AT 630 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES WEST OF PIERSON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF EMERALDA...MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR PIERSON AT 655 PM EST NEAR BARBERVILLE AT 700 PM EST NEAR DE LEON SPRINGS AT 710 PM EST NEAR DAYTONA BEACH...DAYTONA BEACH INTL SPEEDWAY...HOLLY HILL... ORMOND BEACH AT 730 PM EST 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 11:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 36 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.