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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 31, 2001Osceola County, Florida

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1036 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 2:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSeminole43 min
Mar 31, 2:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola52 min
Mar 31, 2:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard46 min
Mar 31, 3:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola48 min
Mar 31, 3:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard64 min
Mar 31, 3:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBLake46 min
Mar 31, 4:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBVolusia60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.