Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2001, 2:33 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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 22, 2001, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 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 18:33 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 22, 2:35 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Palm Bay, FL | |
| Jun 22, 3:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 M | Patrick Afb, FL | Patrick Air Force Base recorded a thunderstorm wind gust to 55 knots (63 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, 6.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 785 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 221835 SVRMLB FLC009-221915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 233 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 315 PM EDT. * AT 228 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PALM BAY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR SOUTH MELBOURNE AT 240 PM EDT NEAR INDIALANTIC...MELBOURNE BEACH AT 245 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 2804 8079 2792 8065 2828 8016 2847 8038 RL
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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.