Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2001, 5:34 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 10, 2001, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 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 21:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Cape Canaveral, FL | Cape Canaveral AFS measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 70 knots at the 54 foot level. A few trees were blown down in the city of Cape Canaveral. |
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, 9.6 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
- 251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 102135 TORMLB FLC009-102200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 534 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT. * AT 531 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHARPES...OVER MERRITT ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR CAPE CANAVERAL...COCOA BEACH AT 545 PM EDT NEAR JETTY PARK...PORT CANAVERAL AT 550 PM EDT THIS STORM SHOWED SIGNS OF ROTATION AND COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. DONT GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD! 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 SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR CLOSET. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF NECESSARY...GCET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. $$ LAT...LON 2853 8085 2838 8082 2832 8061 2847 8057
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River, Saint Lucie | 65 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.