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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 29, 2001Osceola County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2001, 11:17 AM EST for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 58 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
Mar 29, 2001, 11:17 AM EST (16:17 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 2001, 12:15 PM EST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Osceola County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 29, 9:15 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 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 2001-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 647 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
647 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
307 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 291621
SVRMLB
FLC097-291715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1117 AM EST THU MAR 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSCEOLA COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1215 PM EST.

* AT 1115 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING NORTHWEST OSCEOLA COUNTY     
  FROM NEAR LOUGHMAN TO DISNEY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  NEAR KISSIMMEE AND POINCIANA PLACE AT 1140 AM
  NEAR BUENA VENTURA LAKES AT 1145 AM
  NEAR ST. CLOUD AT NOON EST

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.

LARGE HAIL...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. TAKE 
COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. THESE STORMS HAVE 
ALREADY PRODUCED QUARTER SIZED HAIL AS THEY MOVED ACROSS SOUTHERN 
LAKE COUNTY.

$$

LAT...LON 2834 8169 2775 8172 2775 8109 2834 8108

PB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 10:38 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBLake67 min
Mar 29, 11:01 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange59 min
Mar 29, 11:43 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSeminole62 min
Mar 29, 11:53 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange67 min
Mar 29, 12:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBVolusia63 min
Mar 29, 12:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola45 min
Mar 29, 12:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard56 min
Mar 29, 1:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola55 min
Mar 29, 1:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard53 min
Mar 29, 2:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOkeechobee27 min
Mar 29, 2:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBIndian River65 min
Mar 29, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBIndian River, Saint Lucie45 min
Mar 29, 4:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSaint Lucie45 min
Mar 29, 4:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBMartin66 min
Mar 29, 5:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSaint Lucie25 min
Mar 29, 6:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBMartin60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.