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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 7:09 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 132309 TORMLB FLC127-132345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 709 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN VOLUSIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 709 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER DE LAND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR DE LEON SPRINGS...PONCE DE LEON SPRINGS AT 720 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 2892 8140 2893 8119 2967 8117 2966 8148 $$ SPRATT
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, 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 |
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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.