Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2004, 3:36 PM EST for Indian River County, Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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, 3:36 PM EST (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2004, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Indian River County, FL, Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 192036 SVRMLB FLC061-097-192115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 334 PM EST MON JAN 19 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY EXTREME SOUTHERN OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 415 PM EST * AT 334 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF YEEHAW JUNCTION...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE OVER THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE AND BLUE CYPRESS LAKE BY 4 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. 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 2779 8106 2761 8105 2761 8054 2784 8055 $$ JP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 1:15 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 60 min | |
| Jan 19, 1:15 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 60 min | |
| Jan 19, 1:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 22 min |
| Jan 19, 2:45 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 60 min | |
| Jan 19, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River | 36 min |
| Jan 19, 3:25 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr | |
| Jan 19, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 31 min |
| Jan 19, 5:31 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.