Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 2:31 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 59 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, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lake County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 131831
TORMLB
FLC069-131930-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
230 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN LAKE COUNTY
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT
* AT 226 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CLERMONT...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
NEAR FERNDALE...CLERMONT AT 240 PM EDT
NEAR LITTLE LAKE HARRIS...HOWEY IN THE HILLS AT 255 PM EDT
NEAR LAKE HARRIS...TAVARES AT 300 PM EDT
NEAR LISBON...LAKE GRIFFIN AT 305 PM EDT
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 2883 8165 2877 8168 2838 8168 2835 8171
2841 8178 2889 8195 2892 8195 2895 8185
2895 8168
$$
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, 1:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 55 min |
| Aug 13, 2:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 44 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 |
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.