Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2002, 5:09 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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
- Apr 30, 2002, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 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 21:09 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, 9.2 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
568 WFUS52 KMLB 302109 TORMLB FLC095-302145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 508 PM EDT TUE APR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT. * AT 504 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKE MARY JANE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF BITHLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER RURAL SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ORANGE COUNTY EAST OF LAKE MARY JANE BY 525 PM. THE IMMEDIATE DANGER OF A TORNADO IS HIGH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO ARE URGED TO QUICKLY PREPARE FOR ITS APPROACH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION ACT NOW AS SECONDS CAN SAVE LIVES 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 BODY. ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME OR RV FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GET INTO AN UNFLOODED DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS AND ARMS. ABANDON YOUR VEHICLE IF THE TORNADO IS NEARBY. $$ LAT...LON 2856 8112 2843 8127 2835 8117 2835 8089 PB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 45 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.