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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 1, 2001Osceola County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2001, 2:04 PM EDT for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 56 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
Jun 1, 2001, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2001, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
56 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 18:07 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, 6.1 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 2001-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 767 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 2001-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
767 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 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.

000 
WUUS52 KMLB 011810
SVRMLB
FLC097-011900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
204 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSCEOLA COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT.

* AT 202 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF HOLOPAW...MOVING NORTHEAST  AT 20 
MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
OVER RURAL EASTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY NEAR DEER PARK AT 220 PM EDT.

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.

LARGE HAIL...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. TAKE
COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

$$

LAT...LON 2807 8118 2790 8110 v2794 8089 2829 8087

PB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard67 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.