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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 29, 2001Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2001, 3:58 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 29, 2001, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2138 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.