Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2000, 6:22 PM EDT for Lake County, Orange County, Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 58 min. 3 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
- Sep 4, 2000, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2000, 7:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 6:36 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Eustis, FL | |
| Sep 4, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Eustis, FL | Severe thunderstorms blew down numerous trees and power lines and severely damaged the roof and a large door at a car dealership in Eustis. Trees also fell on a pickup truck. |
| Sep 4, 7:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | De Leon Spgs, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree 3 miles south of De Leon Springs. |
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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1671 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 042225 SVRMLB FLC069-095-127-042315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 622 PM EDT MON SEP 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY EXTREME NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY WEST CENTRAL VOLUSIA COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 720 PM EDT. * AT 618 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HOWEY IN THE HILLS AND TAVARES... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MID FLORIDA LAKES...EUSTIS ...UMATILLA AND PAISLEY. 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 IT IS AN EMERGENCY. $$ LAT...LON 2878 8189 2865 8175 2901 8126 29H20 8148 WIMMER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange, Osceola | 60 min |
| Sep 4, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 64 min |
| Sep 4, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 40 min |
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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.