Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2000, 3:32 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 38 min. 2 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 19, 2000, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2000, 4:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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 19, 3:45 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | De Land, FL | |
| Sep 19, 3:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | De Land, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees in the old downtown area of Deland. |
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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
843 WUUS52 KMLB 191933 SVRMLB FLC127-192010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 332 PM EDT TUE SEP 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VOLUSIA COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 410 PM EDT. * AT 323 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ORANGE CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR DE LAND AT 340 PM EDT NEAR DE LEON SPRINGS AT 400 PM EDT NEAR BARBERVILLE AT 415 PM EDT NEAR PIERSON AT 425 PM EDT 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 2887 8135 2893 8116 2945 8132 2936 8161
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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.