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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL

January 19, 2004Brevard County, Indian River County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2004, 3:24 PM EST for Brevard County, Indian River County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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
Jan 19, 2004, 3:24 PM EST (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 2004, 4:00 PM EST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brevard County, FL, Indian River County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 2004-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 107 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-500 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMLB 192024
SVRMLB
FLC009-061-192100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
323 PM EST MON JAN 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY
  NORTH CENTRAL INDIAN RIVER COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 400 PM EST

* AT 315 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ROSELAND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

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.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS
PATH...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2790 8068 2772 8066 2775 8018 2797 8020

$$

JP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 1:15 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMLB60 min
Jan 19, 1:15 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMLB60 min
Jan 19, 1:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard22 min
Jan 19, 2:45 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMLB60 min
Jan 19, 3:25 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMLB2 hr
Jan 19, 3:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBIndian River, Osceola39 min
Jan 19, 3:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard31 min
Jan 19, 5:31 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMLB59 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.