Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 2:38 PM EDT for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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, 7:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 131838 TORMLB FLC097-131915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 237 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 237 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SQUALLS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLOPAW AND 10 MILES EAST OF NARCOOSSEE MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... THE SQUALLS WILL MOVE NORTH OVER EASTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY THROUGH 315 PM THE IMMEDIATE DANGER OF A TORNADO IS HIGH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO ARE URGED TO QUICKLY PREPARE FOR ITS APPROACH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION ACT NOW AS SECONDS CAN SAVE LIVES IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GET INTO AN UNFLOODED DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS AND ARMS. ABANDON YOUR VEHICLE IF THE TORNADO IS NEARBY. IF YOU EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE RELAY YOUR REPORT TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ASK THEM TO PASS IT ALONG TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 2786 8105 2787 8085 2828 8084 2827 8112 $$ JP
The 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, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 59 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.