Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Melbourne, FL
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 8:18 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Winter Park, FL | Trees 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole, Volusia | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 40 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.