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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 14, 2001Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 2001, 10:16 AM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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: Sep 14, 2001, 10:16 AM EDT (14:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2001, 10:45 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Orange County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:18 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.

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 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 583 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

515 
WFUS52 KMLB 141416
TORMLB
FLC095-141445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1016 AM EDT FRI SEP 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EDT.

* AT 1015 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF LAKE MARY
  JANE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHRISTMAS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  30 MPH.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHRISTMAS AT 1030 AM EDT
  NEAR BITHLO AT 1035 AM EDT
  NEAR UNION PARK AT 1040 AM EDT
  7 MILES NORTHEAST OF AZALEA PARK AT 1045 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 2826 8110 2835 8092 2860 8104 2858 8145

MJG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 14, 7:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	23 min
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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.