Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 60 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 10, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 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 21:01 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 10, 5:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Cape Canaveral, FL | Cape Canaveral AFS measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 70 knots at the 54 foot level. A few trees were blown down in the city of Cape Canaveral. |
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 102100 SVRMLB FLC009-102200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 500 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT. * AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER TO 20 MILES WEST OF PORT SAINT JOHN. CELLS ALONG THE LINE WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PLAYALINDA BEACH...PORT SAINT JOHN BY 510 PM EDT SHARPES BY 525 PM EDT COCOA BY 535 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 2871 8069 2835 8089 2817 8059 2851 8047 CRISTALDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 36 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.