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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 15, 2001Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2001, 3:43 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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 15, 2001, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2001, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 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 19:46 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
Jun 15, 4:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Merritt Is, FL

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, 7.7 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMLB 151945
TORMLB

FLC009-152015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
343 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 343 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO JUST EAST OF TITUSVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF
  TITUSVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEAR NORTH MERITT ISLAND AT 355 PM EDT
  NEAR CAPE CANAVERAL AND PORT CANAVERAL AT 415 PM EDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS
TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND BODY.

EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO
SHELTER IS AVAILABLE.*..LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST UNFLOODED DITCH...
CULVERT...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A NEARBY TORNADO IN YOUR CAR.

$$

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, 3:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.