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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 3, 2001Orange County, Seminole County, Florida

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 7:24 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ECasselberry, FLThunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees in the Casselberry area damaging a fast food store.
Jun 3, 7:27 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 60 EOrlando, FLThunderstorm 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 EDTThunderstorm Wind 60 ESanford, FLThunderstorm 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1412 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 2001-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBIndian River35 min
Jun 3, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBOrange, Osceola30 min
Jun 3, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange45 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.