Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 20, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Leesburg, FL | |
| Jul 20, 7:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Tavares, FL | Strong downburst winds blew down trees and damaged a river cruise boat near Tavares. |
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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 3636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 202332 TORMLB FLC069-210000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 730 PM EDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LAKE COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 728 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE AT THE LAKE SQUARE MALL NORTH OF LEESBURG AND TREES DOWN ON TRAILERS IN THE AREA. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AND WILL EFFECT THE AREA NORTH OF LEESBURG TO LISBON. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 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 2888 8194 2875 8190 2886 8162 2894 8174 54
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 51 min |
| Jul 20, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 67 min |
| Jul 20, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 56 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.