Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2001, 3:45 PM EST for Indian River County, Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 29, 2001, 3:45 PM EST (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2001, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 4:37 PM EST | Hail 1 | Port St Lucie, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 292051 SVRMLB FLC061-111-292130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 345 PM EST THU MAR 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... INDIAN RIVER COUNTY NORTH ST. LUCIE COUNTY ...IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 430 PM EST. * AT 345 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST SAINT LUCIE COUNTY NEAR THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE...MOVING NORTHEAST INTO INDIAN RIVER COUNTY TOWARDS VERO BEACH AND THEN OFFSHORE. OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SAINT LUCIE COUNTY TOWARDS FORT PIERCE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * RESIDENTS IN THE AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACT AS THE STORMS APPROACH FROM THE WEST. RESIDENTS ALONG THE COAST FROM SEBASTIAN INLET TO FORT PIERCE ARE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE. TORNADIC WATERSPOUTS WERE FORMING JUST OFFSHORE...BUT WERE MOVING AWAY FROM THE COAST OUT TO SEA. HOWEVER...COASTAL RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY ALERT LARGE HAIL...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING FOR FLORIDA. $$ DWS
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, 2:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Okeechobee | 27 min |
| Mar 29, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.