Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2003, 9:24 PM EST for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 14, 2003, 9:24 PM EST (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2003, 10:15 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 2528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 150224 SVRMLB FLC095-150315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 924 PM EST FRI MAR 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 1015 PM EST * AT 917 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE MARY JANE...OR JUST NORTH OF NARCOOSSEE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 5 MILES EAST OF ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 935 PM EST 7 MILES EAST OF CONWAY AT 945 PM EST NEAR UNION PARK AT 950 PM EST 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 2836 8136 2835 8111 2856 8111 2860 8135 $$ RL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 7:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Okeechobee | 57 min |
| Mar 14, 7:48 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 57 min | |
| Mar 14, 8:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 59 min |
| Mar 14, 9:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 65 min |
| Mar 14, 10:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 61 min |
| Mar 14, 10:45 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 90 min | |
| Mar 15, 12:15 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr | |
| Mar 15, 12:15 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr | |
| Mar 15, 2:08 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 112 min | |
| Mar 15, 2:08 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 112 min | |
| Mar 15, 2:29 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 61 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.