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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 6, 2003Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 2003, 2:30 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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
Aug 6, 2003, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
30 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), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 11 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1863 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1863 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

488 
WFUS52 KMLB 061830
TORMLB
FLC009-061900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
230 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BREVARD COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 226 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER ROCKLEDGE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF ROCKLEDGE...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR MERRITT ISLAND...ROCKLEDGE AT 235 PM EDT
  NEAR PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE AT 250 PM EDT
  
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.

LAT...LON 2875 8087 2787 8062 2788 8020 2881 8042

$$

RL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 2:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB85 min
Aug 6, 2:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB85 min
Aug 6, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB61 min
Aug 6, 5:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB78 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.