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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 24, 2000Martin County, Saint Lucie County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2000, 3:57 PM EDT for Martin County, Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 24, 2000, 3:57 PM EDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Martin County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 2000-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1373 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 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
1373 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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 241958
SVRMLB
FLC085-111-242100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
357 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST MARTIN COUNTY
  SOUTHEAST ST. LUCIE COUNTY
  ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 357 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PORT SAINT LUCIE. THE STORM WAS NEARLY
  STATIONARY.

* ADDITIONAL SEVERE STORM MAY DEVELOP NEAR STUART THROUGH 5 PM.

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

$$

LAT...LON 2725 8048 2716 8037 2718 8022 2739 8030

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBVolusia59 min
Jun 24, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBIndian River38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.