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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Melbourne, FL

December 13, 2002Brevard County, Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 13, 2002, 9:02 AM EST for Brevard County, Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 28 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, 9:02 AM EST (14:02 UTC)
Expired: Dec 13, 2002, 9:30 AM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brevard County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 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.

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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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.

000 
WFUS52 KMLB 131402
TORMLB
FLC009-127-131430-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 AM EST

* AT 900 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH SIGNIFICANT ROTATION NEAR LAKE HARNEY
MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...APOLLO   
BEACH...ELDORA...SHILOH...OAK HILL AND SCOTTSMOOR.


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. 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.

IF YOU EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE RELAY YOUR REPORT TO LOCAL
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ASK THEM TO PASS IT ALONG TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. OR YOU MAY CALL THE MELBOURNE WEATHER OFFICE DIRECTLY AT 
THIS NUMBER 1 800 683 4468. 

$$

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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, 8:26 AM EST	Tornado Warning	MLB	Volusia	34 min
Dec 13, 8:55 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
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

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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.