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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 4, 2004Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 4, 2004, 11:15 PM EDT for Volusia 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: Sep 4, 2004, 11:15 PM EDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2004, 12:15 AM EDT
In force: 60 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), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:18 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
Sep 4, 7:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 2112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 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.

000 
WFUS52 KMLB 050315
TORMLB
FLC127-050415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1114 PM EDT SAT SEP 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL VOLUSIA COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1215 AM EDT

* AT 1108 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES EAST OF PONCE
  INLET...MOVING WEST AT 55 MPH.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO...
  MOVE ONSHORE NEAR PONCE INLET AT 1125 PM EDT
  NEAR WILBUR BY THE SEA...PORT ORANGE...AND SOUTH DAYTONA AT 
  1130 PM EDT
  NEAR DELAND AT 1150 PM EDT
  NEAR DELEON SPRINGS AND PONCE DE LEON SPRINGS AT 1155 PM EDT

TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL CYCLONES ARE OFTEN WRAPPED IN
HEAVY RAIN AND ARE HARD TO SEE OR HEAR UNTIL THEY ARE VERY CLOSE. DO
NOT GET CAUGHT OFFGUARD

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 AND KEEP AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE. WATCH FOR THE POPPING OF
ELECTRIC LINES AND TRANSFORMERS OR LISTEN FOR THE SOUND OF LOUD
RUMBLING AS THAT OF AN APPROACHING FREIGHT TRAIN.

LAT...LON 2903 8060 2931 8067 2924 8161 2884 8125

$$

BRAGAW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 4, 8:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	64 min
Sep 4, 9:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	30 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.