Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2001, 9:49 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2001, 9:49 PM EDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2001, 10:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 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 01:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Titusville, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 170150 SVRMLB FLC009-170215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 949 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 1020 PM EDT. * AT 948 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TITUSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AT 955 PM EDT NEAR PLAYALINDA BEACH AT 1010 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. $$ LAT...LON 2868 8096 2843 8088 2839 8050 2867 8062 28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Martin | 64 min |
| Jun 17, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 67 min |
| Jun 17, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.