Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 2:06 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 44 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, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 2:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 131806
TORMLB
FLC095-131850-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
205 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ORANGE COUNTY
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 250 PM EDT
* AT 205 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
PERSISTENT ROTATION IN A SQUALL LINE EXTENDING FROM THE THEME PARKS
TO SAINT CLOUD MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
* THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE...
NEAR LAKE BUENA VISTA...PLEASURE ISLAND...EPCOT...BUENA VENTURA
LAKES AT 215 PM EDT
NEAR SEA WORLD...MAGIC KINGDOM AT 220 PM EDT
NEAR TANGELO PARK...WET N WILD WATER PARK...ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT...LAKE MARY JANE AT 225 PM EDT
THE IMMEDIATE DANGER OF ISOLATED TORNADOES IS HIGH. PEOPLE IN THE
PATH ARE URGED TO QUICKLY PREPARE FOR ITS APPROACH. THIS IS A
DANGEROUS SITUATION
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 SUCH AS A
BATHROOM OR CLOSET. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF NECESSARY...GET UNDER
A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
LAT...LON 2830 8098 2834 8163 2861 8168 2857 8102
$$
JPThe 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, 1:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 55 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.