Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2001, 3:23 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 67 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 17, 2001, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 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 19:25 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 17, 3:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Paisley, FL | Thunderstorm winds swept across northern Lake County blowing down a few trees near Paisley and Emerald. |
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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 171927 SVRMLB FLC069-172030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 323 PM EDT SUN JUN 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT. * AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF EUSTIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. * ANOTHER STORM WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF EUSTIS * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... NEAR ALTOONA AND EUSTIS AT 330 PM EDT NEAR UMATILLA AT 335 PM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EX0CESS 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 16, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Martin | 64 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2001Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.