Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 5:31 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 59 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, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 152132 SVRMLB FLC069-152230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 531 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT. * AT 522 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF CLERMONT...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MAGIC KINGDOM...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR CLERMONT AT 625 PM EDT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FERNDALE AND 6 MILES EAST OF GROVELAND AT 630 PM EDT 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 2836 8183 2837 8163 2870 8161 2868 8191 GITTINGER
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, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 63 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, 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.