Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2002, 5:52 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 53 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 20, 2002, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 3682 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
735 WUUS52 KMLB 202152 SVRMLB FLC069-202245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 550 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT. AT 550 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE ORANGE AND LAKE COUNTY LINE...4 MILES NORTH OF ZELLWOOD...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY NEAR MASCOTTE AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. IN ADDITION...LAKE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT RELAYED A PUBLIC REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR LEESBURG AT 550 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... MOUNT DORA...EUSTIS...UMATILLA...FOREST HILLS...AND MASCOTTE. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IN ADDITION...RAINFALL OF 2 INCHES IN AN HOUR...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. EARLIER...ONE OF THESE STORMS DOWNED SEVERAL LARGE TREES IN THE WEKIVA SPRINGS STATE PARK. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ LAT...LON 2878 8171 2878 8150 2903 8138 2905 8166 SMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 105 min | |
| Jul 20, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 105 min | |
| Jul 20, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 54 min |
| Jul 20, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange, Osceola | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange, Osceola | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 34 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.