Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2002, 7:55 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 50 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
- Apr 26, 2002, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2002, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:56 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Orlando, FL | |
| Apr 26, 8:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Orlando, FL | Severe thunderstorms produced dime size hail in the Disney area and blew down a large tree onto a house in Orlando injuring one person. |
| Apr 26, 8:43 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Maitland, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
805 WUUS52 KMLB 262355 SVRMLB FLC095-270045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 752 PM EDT FRI APR 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 845 PM EDT. * AT 752 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM FAIRVIEW SHORES TO THE ATTRACTIONS AREA...DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COMMUNITIES... ORLOVISTA...ORLANDO...CONWAY...BELLE ISLE AND PINE CASTLE THROUGH 830 PM EDT DIME SIZED HAIL WAS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS AT 752 PM NEAR THE DISNEY COMPLEX. 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 2860 8154 2842 8154 2845 8133 2862 8137
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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.