Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 9:09 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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 9, 2001, 9:09 PM EDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2001, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Cocoa, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees in the Cocoa and Rockledge area. |
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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 978 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 100110 SVRMLB FLC009-100145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 909 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 945 PM EDT. * AT 906 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORM BECOMING SEVERE OVER ROCKLEDGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THE POTENTIAL FOR 60 MPH WIND GUSTS WITH THIS STORM. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR MERRITT ISLAND AND COCOA BEACH AT 915 PM EDT PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE BY 920 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. $$ LAT...LON 2837 8087 2825 8073 2861 8024 2880 8046 ,
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 5:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 26 min |
| Jun 10, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River, Saint Lucie | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.