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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Melbourne, FL

July 26, 2000Lake County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2000, 6:12 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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: Jul 26, 2000, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Lake County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 26, 6:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Paisley, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2586 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMLB 262214
SVRMLB
FLC069-262300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
612 PM EDT WED JUL 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LAKE COUNTY
  ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF   
PAISLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IOT IS AN EMERGENCY.

$$

LAT...LON 2914 8162 2899 8173 2879 8144 2895 8136

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange	43 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.