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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 14, 2001Saint Lucie County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 4:15 PM EDT for Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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 14, 2001, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Saint Lucie County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 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.

411 
WUUS52 KMLB 142015
SVRMLB
FLC111-142100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
415 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL ST. LUCIE COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT.

* AT 406 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF SAINT LUCIE WEST...OR ABOUT 9
  MILES WEST OF PORT SAINT LUCIE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  6 MILES WEST OF SAINT LUCIE AIRPORT...8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKEWOOD
  PARK AT 500 PM EDT

LARGE HAIL...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. TAKE
COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

$$

LAT...LON 2724 8059 2724 8039 2759 8036 2759 8064

GITTINGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 8:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange	35 min
Jun 14, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Lake, Orange	62 min
Jun 14, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Seminole	68 min
Jun 14, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Lake	33 min
Jun 14, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Volusia	62 min
Jun 14, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola, Seminole	61 min
Jun 14, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Osceola	64 min
Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	55 min
Jun 14, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Volusia	46 min
Jun 14, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	60 min
Jun 14, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2001 Every 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.