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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 6, 2004Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 11:43 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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 6, 2004, 11:43 AM EDT (15:43 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 2004, 12:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 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), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 6, 7:55 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 830 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

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

147 
WFUS52 KMLB 061543
TORMLB
FLC127-061615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1143 AM EDT MON SEP 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1215 PM EDT

* AT 1138 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORT ORANGE...MOVING NORTH
  AT 45 MPH.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR HOLLY HILL...DAYTONA BEACH...ORMOND BEACH AT 1150 AM EDT
  NEAR ORMOND BY THE SEA AT NOON EDT

THE IMMEDIATE DANGER OF A TORNADO IS HIGH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS
DEVELOPING TORNADO ARE URGED TO QUICKLY PREPARE FOR ITS APPROACH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION ACT NOW AS SECONDS CAN SAVE LIVES

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.

IF YOU ARE IN AN RV PARK...LEAVE YOUR RV FOR STURDY SHELTER. MANY
PARKS HAVE CENTRALIZED BUILDINGS SUCH AS REC CENTERS...POOL HOUSES...
COMMUNITY SHOWERS AND BATHS...OR A MAIN OFFICE WHICH CAN OFFER BETTER
PROTECTION. WHILE MOVING TO SAFER SHELTER...QUICKLY INFORM YOUR
NEIGHBOR BY KNOCKING ON THEIR DOOR.

LAT...LON 2908 8116 2905 8103 2953 8081 2959 8105

$$
KELLY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 7:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Osceola	31 min
Sep 6, 8:01 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Osceola	59 min
Sep 6, 9:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Volusia	34 min
Sep 6, 10:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Osceola	60 min
Sep 6, 11:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Volusia	30 min
Sep 6, 11:59 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Orange, Volusia	31 min
Sep 6, 12:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	24 min
Sep 6, 12:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Orange, Volusia	60 min
Sep 6, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		116 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.