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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Melbourne, FL

December 13, 2002Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 13, 2002, 8:26 AM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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: Dec 13, 2002, 8:26 AM EST (13:26 UTC)
Expired: Dec 13, 2002, 9:00 AM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 13, 6:45 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1011 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 10.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

037 
WFUS52 KMLB 131326
TORMLB
FLC127-131400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
825 AM EST FRI DEC 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN VOLUSIA COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 900 AM EST

* AT 825 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  MAYTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... APOLLO   
  BEACH...EDGEWATER...ELDORA AND OAK HILL.
 
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 AND KEEP AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU ARE IN AN RV PARK...LEAVE YOUR RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. MANY
PARKS HAVE CENTRALIZED BUILDINGS SUCH AS REC CENTERS...POOL HOUSES...
COMMUNITY SHOWERS AND BATHS...OR A MAIN OFFICE WHICH CAN OFFER BETTER
PROTECTION.

$$


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 12, 11:09 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Dec 13, 7:21 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		114 min
Dec 13, 8:55 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Dec 13, 9:02 AM EST	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Volusia	28 min
Dec 13, 10:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	44 min
Dec 13, 10:53 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		67 min
Dec 13, 10:53 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		67 min
Dec 13, 11:15 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Dec 13, 11:15 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Dec 13, 11:35 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River	55 min
Dec 13, 12:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	7 days
Dec 13, 1:00 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		90 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.