Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT for Orange County, Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min. 3 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 3, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2001, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Deer Park, FL | An F0 tornado touched down briefly in a rural area of the extreme northeast corner of Osceola County near State Road 532. The tornado was documented by storm chasers as it moved into southeast Orange County. No damage was reported. |
| Jun 3, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Christmas, FL | An F0 tornado move north out of Osceola County into the extreme southeast corner of Orange County near State Road 532. The tornado dissipate quickly north of the Osceola Orange county line. |
| Jun 3, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Ocoee, FL | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and power lines in the Ocoee area. Two homes were damaged by falling trees. |
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 1412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 032216 TORMLB FLC095-097-032245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 615 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY NORTHEASTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT. * AT 610 PM EDT...STORM SPOTTERS SIGHTED A TORNADO NEAR... HIGHWAY 419 NEAR THE OSCEOLA AND BREVARD COUNTY LINE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 8 MILES SOUTH OF CHRISTMAS AT 645 PM EDT PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED AREAS SHOULD WATCH AND LISTEN FOR THE APPROACH OF A TORNADO AND BE READY TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES YOU...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY $$ LAT...LON 2819 8109 2819 8089 2854 8087 2853 8113 & SPRATT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange, Seminole | 49 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.