Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2001, 4:16 PM EST for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 59 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 31, 2001, 4:16 PM EST (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2001, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1036 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
943 WUUS52 KMLB 312117 SVRMLB FLC097-312215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 416 PM EST SAT MAR 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 515 PM EST. * AT 415 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 31 MILES WEST OF HOLOPAW...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF CYPRESS GARDENS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR HOLOPAW AT 440 PM EST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF THE STORM APPROACHES YOU...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 2811 8159 2794 8153 2810 8089 2831 8097 HAGEMEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 2:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 52 min |
| Mar 31, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 3:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 64 min |
| Mar 31, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 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.