Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2001, 2:33 PM EST for Okeechobee County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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
- Mar 29, 2001, 2:33 PM EST (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2001, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okeechobee County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 647 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 291935 SVRMLB FLC093-292000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 233 PM EST THU MAR 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN OKEECHOBEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 300 PM EST. * AT 230 PM EST...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN OKEECHOBEE COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF FORT DRUM...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WILL CROSS THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE OVER NORTHEAST OKEECHOBEE COUNTY THROUGH 3 PM. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 2760 8091 2744 8084 2753 8069 2763 8087 PB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 10:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 67 min |
| Mar 29, 11:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 59 min |
| Mar 29, 11:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 58 min |
| Mar 29, 11:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 62 min |
| Mar 29, 11:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 67 min |
| Mar 29, 12:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 12:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 56 min |
| Mar 29, 1:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 55 min |
| Mar 29, 1:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 53 min |
| Mar 29, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River, Saint Lucie | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Martin | 66 min |
| Mar 29, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Martin | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.