Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2001, 2:09 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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 24, 2001, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2001, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 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 18:10 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 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Cape Canavral Misl S, FL | An F0 tornado touched down briefly in an undeveloped area west of the Space Shuttle launch facility. No damage was reported. |
| Jun 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 M | Cape Canavral Misl S, FL | A thunderstorm wind gust of 51 knots was recorded at Kennedy Space Center. |
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, 6.2 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
- 282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 241810 SVRMLB FLC009-241845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 209 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 245 PM EDT. * AT 200 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MERRITT ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR PORT CANAVERAL...JETTY PARK AT 220 PM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.q IF THE STORM APPROACHES YOU...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ LAT...LON 2831 8078 2819 8064 2849 8024 2866 8044 RL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 35 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.