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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2000, 4:49 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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
- Apr 15, 2000, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 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 20:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:08 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Oak Hill, 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, 8.8 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
120 WUUS52 KMLB 152051 SVRMLB FLC127-152130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 449 PM EDT SAT APR 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN VOLUSIA COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT. * AT 442 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF OAK HILL...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MAYTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ELDORA... EDGEWATER AND APOLLO BEACH 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. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 2893 8103 2877 8092 2902 8038 2925 8055
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 61 min |
| Apr 15, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 42 min |
| Apr 15, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.