Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 2001, 7:22 AM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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
- Sep 14, 2001, 7:22 AM EDT (11:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2001, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 23 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 11:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 7:55 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Melbourne, FL | A rain band associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle moving north near the Florida coastline produced a small F0 tornado on the barrier island east of the Intracoastal Waterway. The tornado seriously damaged the roof of a boat dry storage building and overtur |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 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
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
266 WFUS52 KMLB 141123 TORMLB FLC009-141145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 722 AM EDT FRI SEP 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 745 AM EDT. * AT 720 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF MICCO...OR ABOUT OVER SEBASTIAN INLET...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR BAREFOOT BAY AT 730 AM EDT NEAR GRANT AT 735 AM EDT NEAR MALABAR AT 745 AM EDT TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL CYCLONES ARE OFTEN WRAPPED IN HEAVY RAIN AND ARE HARD TO SEE OR HEAR UNTIL THEY ARE VERY CLOSE. DO NOT GET CAUGHT OFFGUARD IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 2774 8053 2780 8034 2815 8046 2808 8070 RL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 8:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 27 min |
| Sep 14, 8:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 28 min |
| Sep 14, 10:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 29 min |
| Sep 14, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 43 min |
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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.