Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 2003, 4:07 PM EST for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 38 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 17, 2003, 4:07 PM EST (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2003, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 38 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), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
776 WFUS52 KMLB 172107 TORMLB FLC009-172145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 407 PM EST MON MAR 17 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 445 PM EST * AT 402 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PALM BAY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF PALM BAY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR MALABAR AT 415 PM EST NEAR GRANT AT 420 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 2798 8076 2786 8070 2793 8018 2816 8027 $$ MJG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 3:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 90 min | |
| Mar 17, 3:33 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 117 min | |
| Mar 17, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 43 min |
| Mar 17, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 55 min |
| Mar 17, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Volusia | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 4:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 5:07 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 113 min | |
| Mar 17, 5:07 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 113 min | |
| Mar 17, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 60 min |
| Mar 17, 6:49 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 86 min | |
| Mar 17, 6:49 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 86 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.