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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT for Orange County, Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 60 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, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 132100 TORMLB FLC095-097-132200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 458 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ORANGE COUNTY OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 5 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLOPAW...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH LAKE KISSIMMEE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR HARMONY AT 505 PM EDT 6 MILES EAST OF SAINT CLOUD AT 510 PM EDT NEAR NARCOOSSEE...6 MILES EAST OF EAST LAKE TOHO AT 515 PM EDT NEAR LAKE MARY JANE AT 525 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND BODY. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST UNFLOODED DITCH... CULVERT...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A NEARBY TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. LAT...LON 2816 8164 2776 8102 2839 8090 2836 8162 $$
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, 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, 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.