Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 3:38 PM EST for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2002, 3:38 PM EST (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 37 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), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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 nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 11.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMLB 242038
TORMLB
FLC009-242115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
338 PM EST TUE DEC 24 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 415 PM EST
* AT 334 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF TITUSVILLE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF
CHRISTMAS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
NEAR TITUSVILLE...MIMS...7 MILES NORTH OF TITUSVILLE AIRPORT AT 355
PM EST
7 MILES SOUTH OF HAULOVER CANAL AT 410 PM EST
NEAR KENNEDY SPACE CENTER...PLAYALINDA BEACH AT 415 PM EST
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS
TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND BODY.
EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO
SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST UNFLOODED DITCH...
CULVERT...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A NEARBY TORNADO IN YOUR CAR.
LAT...LON 2863 8110 2846 8104 2856 8059 2877 8066
$$
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH FLORIDA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 2:35 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 115 min | |
| Dec 24, 3:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 38 min |
| Dec 24, 3:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 36 min |
| Dec 24, 4:30 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 3 hr | |
| Dec 24, 4:30 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 3 hr | |
| Dec 24, 4:30 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 60 min | |
| Dec 24, 4:30 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 60 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.