Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 1:35 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 55 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 13, 2004, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lake County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMLB 131735
TORMLB
FLC069-131830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
134 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 230 PM EDT
* AT 131 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 29 MILES SOUTH OF CLERMONT...
OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF HAINES CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.
* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
NEAR CLERMONT AT 215 PM
NEAR FERNDALE AT 220 PM
NEAR HOWEY IN THE HILLS AT 230 PM
TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL CYCLONES ARE OFTEN WRAPPED IN
HEAVY RAIN AND ARE HARD TO SEE OR HEAR UNTIL THEY ARE VERY CLOSE. DO
NOT GET CAUGHT OFFGUARD
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN A STRONG
BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND KEEP AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 2877 8168 2838 8168 2835 8171 2838 8185
2874 8188 2877 8192 2880 8188 2880 8165
$$
RLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 11:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Okeechobee | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Okeechobee, Osceola | 59 min |
| Aug 13, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Okeechobee, Osceola | 62 min |
| Aug 13, 2:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 59 min |
| Aug 13, 2:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 3:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard, Volusia | 66 min |
| Aug 13, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 54 min | |
| Aug 13, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange, Osceola | 60 min |
| Aug 13, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Osceola | 55 min |
| Aug 13, 7:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 36 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.