Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 2001, 5:02 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 5:20 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | New Smyrna Beach, FL | A rain band associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle moving north along the Florida coastline produced a small F0 tornado just north of Ponce Inlet. The tornado moved north northwest blowing down a few trees, destroying three mobile homes and damaging 12 othe |
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
515 WFUS52 KMLB 142103 TORMLB FLC127-142145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 502 PM EDT FRI SEP 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... VOLUSIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT. * AT 500 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR INLET HARBOR...NEAR PONCE INLET. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE FUNNEL CLOUD WERE ALONG THE COAST BETWEEN PONCE INLET AND WILBUR BY THE SEA... MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * INTERESTS NEAR THE COAST BETWEEN PONCE INLET...PORT ORANGE AND DAYTONA BEACH SHOULD BE ALERT FOR A TORNADO OR WATERSPOUT AND TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS WATERSPOUT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO MOVE ONSHORE AND BECOME A THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY. WHENEVER A WATERSPOUT MOVES ONSHORE IT SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE A TORNADO. ALTHOUGH TYPICALLY WEAKER AND SHORTER LIVED...A LANDFALLING WATERSPOUT CAN STILL CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY...OR IN EXTREME SITUATIONS EVEN DEATH. IT CAN ALSO PRODUCE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. $$ 52 LAT...LON 2917 8108 2905 8094 2952 8028 2975 8053 &
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, 10:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 29 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.