Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2001, 7:11 PM EDT for Orange County, Seminole County, Florida. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports 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
- Jun 3, 2001, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:24 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Casselberry, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees in the Casselberry area damaging a fast food store. |
| Jun 3, 7:27 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Orlando, FL | Thunderstorm wind produced widespread wind damage over Orange County. Trees were blown down in Orlando. The roof was damaged on a day care center in Winter Park. |
| Jun 3, 7:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Sanford, FL | Thunderstorm wind blew down trees over much of Sanford and the Maitland areas. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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
- 1412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 032317 SVRMLB FLC095-117-040000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 711 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY SEMINOLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT. * AT 710 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MERGING OVER SEMINOLE COUNTY AND CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY. * THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING...BLINDING RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS OVER 58 MPH...AND SMALL HAIL OVER MUCH OF THE WARNED AREA. BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL. MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. $$ LAT...LON 2834 8152 2834 8104 2874 8105 2884 8141 BRAGAW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange, Osceola | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 45 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.