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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 15, 2001Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2001, 4:15 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 60 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 15, 2001, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2001, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 60 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 20:16 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
Jun 15, 4:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Cocoa, FL	Thunderstorm downburst winds blew down trees and power lines that damaged a car in Cocoa. Winds also damaged the car barrier at the Port Canaveral draw bridge. An air conditioner unit was damaged on the roof of Parish Medical Center in Cape Canaveral.
Jun 15, 4:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Titusville, FL	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and trees that damaged a car in Titusville.

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, 8.3 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 152017
TORMLB

FLC009-152115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT.

* AT 415 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  NORTHWEST MERITT ISLAND...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OD PRODUCING A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN. IT
  CONTINUES TO SHOW 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 BORDY.

$$

LAT...LON 2864 8086 2846 8079 2848 8066 2864 8074


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, 3:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	32 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

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.