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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 4, 2004Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2004, 3:53 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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: Jun 4, 2004, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brevard County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 754 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

195 
WFUS52 KMLB 041953
TORMLB
FLC009-042015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
352 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 348 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER MIMS...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE KLONDIKE BEACH AND THE      
  NORTHERN PORTION OF MERRITT ISLAND WILDLIFE REFUGE

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 2876 8094 2858 8094 2853 8053 2880 8054

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Saint Lucie	55 min
Jun 4, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Jun 4, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Lake, Orange	59 min
Jun 4, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	39 min
Jun 4, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	62 min
Jun 4, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	51 min
Jun 4, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		113 min
Jun 4, 5:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Osceola	35 min
Jun 4, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		109 min
Jun 4, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	34 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.