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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2004, 12:51 PM EDT for Volusia 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
- Apr 8, 2004, 12:51 PM EDT (16:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 10:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 081651 SVRMLB FLC127-081730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1250 PM EDT THU APR 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL VOLUSIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 1245 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DE LEON SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 9 MILES SOUTH OF WILBUR BY THE SEA AT 125 PM EDT NEAR NEW SMYRNA BEACH...8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PONCE INLET AT 130 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. LAT...LON 2921 8136 2904 8143 2888 8098 2909 8090 $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr | |
| Apr 8, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 53 min |
| Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr | |
| Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr | |
| Apr 8, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 115 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.