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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2002, 3:32 PM EST for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2002, 3:32 PM EST (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2002, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 4:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | West Melbourne, FL | Thunderstorm winds damaged air-conditioner units on a large warehouse store in West Melbourne. Large pallets of boxing material were moved around in the parking lot. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 3:10 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1147 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 162032 SVRMLB FLC009-162130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 330 PM EST SAT NOV 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 430 PM EST * AT 330 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LONE CABBAGE FISH CAMP TO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALM BAY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... NEAR SHARPES...CAMP HOLLY FISH CAMP AT 345 PM EST NEAR ROCKLEDGE...COCOA AT 350 PM EST NEAR WEST MELBOURNE...PALM BAY AT 355 PM EST NEAR COCOA BEACH AT 405 PM EST NEAR CAPE CANAVERAL AT 410 PM EST 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. LAT...LON 2876 8094 2782 8084 2783 8041 2877 8055 $$ 28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 11:50 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 85 min | |
| Nov 16, 2:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 42 min |
| Nov 16, 3:45 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 105 min | |
| Nov 16, 3:45 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 105 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.