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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 6:42 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 25, 2003, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 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), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 1054 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 252242 SVRMLB FLC009-252345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 639 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 636 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LCANAVERAL ACRES...OR ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF LONE CABBAGE FISH CAMP...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR SHARPES AND PORT SAINT JOHN AT 645 PM EDT OVER NORTH MERRITT ISLAND AT 705 PM EDT NEAR PLAYALINDA BEACH AT 715 PM EDT IN ADDITION...ANOTHER STORM WAS INTENSIFYING NEAR STATE ROAD 520 WEST OF COCOA NEAR THE ORANGE AND OSCEOLA COUNTY BORDERS. THIS STORM WILL ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND DAMAGE AND HAIL AS IT MOVES TOWARD THE COCOA AREA BY 700 PM. 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 2871 8066 2851 8056 2833 8079 2845 8090 $$ CRISTALDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Volusia | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 44 min |
| Apr 25, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 118 min | |
| Apr 25, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange, Seminole | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 57 min |
| Apr 25, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 32 min |
| Apr 25, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 31 min |
| Apr 25, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 49 min |
| Apr 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 117 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.