Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 5:12 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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 15, 2001, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 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 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 1882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 152116 SVRMLB FLC009-152215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 512 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT. * AT 507 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKLEDGE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR CAMP HOLLY FISH CAMP AT 550 PM EDT RECENT DAMAGE REPORTS FROM THE STORMS INCLUDES... A ROOF OFF BLOWN OFF OF A HOUSE IN TUTUSVILLE AROUND 430 PM... WIND DAMAGE TO THE GATES AT THE BARGE CANAL BRIDGE ON STATE ROAD 3... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ /LAT...LON 2826 8087 2799 8083 2799 8068 2828 8075 CRISTALDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 3:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 3:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.