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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Melbourne, FL

July 4, 2002Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2002, 4:26 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 64 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
Jul 4, 2002, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
64 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 20:27 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, 8.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2267 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2267 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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.

536 
WUUS52 KMLB 042026
SVRMLB
FLC009-042130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
425 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT.

* AT 420 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PALM BAY AND THE CAMP HOLLY FISH CAMP.  
THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MERGE OVER WEST 
MELBOURNE.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR MALABAR AT 430 PM EDT
  NEAR WEST MELBOURNE AT 445 PM EDT
  NEAR MELBOURNE BEACH...MELBOURNE...INDIALANTIC AT 510 PM EDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF
THE STORM APPROACHES YOU...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.

$$

LAT...LON 2803 8078 2790 8064 2826 8015 2845 8037

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 1:48 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB57 min
Jul 4, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBVolusia28 min
Jul 4, 2:48 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB102 min
Jul 4, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBVolusia43 min
Jul 4, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard55 min
Jul 4, 4:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB115 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.