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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 10, 2001Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2001, 5:06 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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 10, 2001, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Orange County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 2001-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 251 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 2001-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMLB 102106
SVRMLB
FLC095-102145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
506 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT.

* AT 501 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHRISTMAS
  ...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER...
RURAL SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY THROUGH 545 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 2844 8116 2834 8112 2835 8088 2857 8094

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard36 min
Jun 10, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard60 min
Jun 10, 5:34 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBBrevard26 min
Jun 10, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard59 min
Jun 10, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBIndian River, Saint Lucie65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.