Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2001, 7:05 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 55 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 18, 2001, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 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 23:08 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 18, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Altoona, FL | Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn door in Altoona. Winds were reported at 55 mph. |
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, 11.1 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
- 513 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 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 182307 SVRMLB FLC069-190000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 705 PM EDT MON JUN 18 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 800 PM. * AT 700 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PAISLEY. THE STORM WAS MOVING LITTLE. ADDITIONAL STORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTH LAKE COUNTY FROM NEAR CASSIA TO ASTOR PARK...AND COULD ALSO BECOME SEVERE. 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 2914 8144 2912 8169 2880 8166 2881 8137 RL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 40 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.