Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 2000, 2:05 PM EDT for Martin County, Florida. It was in force for 25 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 13, 2000, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Martin County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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 13, 2:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Palm City, 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
876
WFUS52 KMLB 131807
TORMLB
FLC085-131830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
205 PM EDT THU APR 13 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY
...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 230 PM EDT.
* AT 205 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO DEVELOPING 12
MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALM CITY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF
INDIANTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
NEAR PALM CITY...6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOBE SOUND AT 230 PM EDT
NEAR HOBE SOUND BEACH...JENSEN BEACH...PORT SALERNO...PORT SEWALL
AT 235 PM EDT
THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED A TORNADO IN NORTHEAST PALM BEACH
COUNTY...WITH DAMAGE REPORTED.
PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED AREAS SHOULD WATCH AND LISTEN FOR THE
APPROACH OF A TORNADO AND BE READY TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION. IF A
TORNADO APPROACHES YOU...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
$$
LAT...LON 2704 8047 2691 8033 2727 7985 2746 8006
&The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Martin, Saint Lucie | 34 min |
| Apr 13, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 50 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.