Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 2000, 2:26 PM EDT for Martin County, Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Martin County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
331 WFUS52 KMLB 131828 TORMLB FLC085-111-131900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 226 PM EDT THU APR 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MARTIN COUNTY EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN ST. LUCIE COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT. * AT 217 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALM CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... PORT SALERNO...PORT SEWALL...AND STUART AROUND 235 PM EDT. NEAR JENSEN BEACH AT 240 PM EDT. NEAR SAINT LUCIE NUCLEAR PLANT AT 250 PM EDT. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND BODY. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST UNFLOODED DITCH... CULVERT...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A NEARBY TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. $$ LAT...LON 2713 8041 2701 8027 2737 7979 2756 8000
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Martin | 25 min |
| Apr 13, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 50 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.