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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 15, 2001Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 6:40 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 65 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, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 65 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 22:42 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, 10.7 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMLB 152241
SVRMLB
FLC009-152345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
640 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.

* AT 640 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLOPAW
  TO 5 MILES EAST OF KENANSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  NEAR CAMP HOLLY FISH CAMP AT 710 PM EDT
  NEAR PALM BAY AT 715 PM EDT
  NEAR WEST MELBOURNE AT 720 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.

$$

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, 5:12 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, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Lake	59 min
Jun 15, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Osceola	57 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.