Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2001, 3:08 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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
- Jun 15, 2001, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2001, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 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 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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
- 1882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 151909 TORMLB FLC009-151945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 308 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT. * AT 308 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SCOTTSMOOR...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR MIMS AT 315 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...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. $$ LAT...LON 2878 8094 2859 8090 2861 8076 2879 8076 CRISTALDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 3:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 65 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.