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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT for Lake County, Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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 14, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2004, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 141730 TORMLB FLC069-095-141815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 130 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAKE COUNTY NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 128 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH SIGNIFICANT ROTATION NEAR CLERMONT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF FERNDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR FERNDALE AT 135 PM EDT NEAR WINTER GARDEN AT 140 PM EDT NEAR LAKE APOPKA AT 145 PM EDT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF OCOEE AT 150 PM EDT NEAR APOPKA...ZELLWOOD AT 155 PM EDT THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD ACT NOW IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. DO NOT WAIT FOR THE TORNADO TO DEVELOP BEFORE ACTING...YOU MAY NOT SEE OR HEAR ITS APPROACH. DO NOT GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD 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 SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR CLOSET. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF NECESSARY...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME OR RV FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. 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. LAT...LON 2852 8187 2840 8171 2872 8137 2886 8157 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 10:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 3 hr | |
| Aug 14, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 3 hr |
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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.