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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 25, 2000Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
Aug 25, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
45 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 00:17 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 25, 8:18 PM EDTHail 0.75Winter Park, FLTrees and power lines were blown down and dime size hail fell at Winter Park.

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 00:00Z, 0.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1929 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
1929 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 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 260029
SVRMLB
FLC095-260100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
815 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ORANGE COUNTY
  ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 810 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LONGWOOD TO KISSIMMEE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  NEAR WINTER PARK AT 820 PM EDT
  NEAR ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 830 PM EDT
  NEAR CONWAY AT 830 PM EDT
  NEAR AZALEA PARK AT 835 PM EDT

SEVERE THUNDERESTORMS 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.

$$

BRAGAW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSeminole, Volusia45 min
Aug 25, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola40 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.