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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 2, 2000Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Orange County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1087 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

722 
WFUS52 KMLB 022139
TORMLB
FLC095-022200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
537 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY
  ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 532 PM EDT...ORANGE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A      
  TORNADO ALONG HIGHWAY 50 AND 436 IN EAST ORLANDO. 

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 2856 8138 2843 8123 2861 8123 2860 8136

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.