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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 12:06 PM EDT for Orange County, Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 24 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, 12:06 PM EDT (16:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2004, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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 6, 7:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 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
- 457 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
777 WFUS52 KMLB 061606 TORMLB FLC095-097-061630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1207 PM EDT MON SEP 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY NORTH CENTRAL OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 1230 PM EDT * AT 1205 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF HARMONY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF NARCOOSSEE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES EAST OF LAKE MARY JANE AT 1215 PM EDT NEAR CHRISTMAS AT 1225 PM EDT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BITHLO AT 1230 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. LAT...LON 2819 8126 2814 8106 2865 8087 2871 8112 $$
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, 11:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 32 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, 12:30 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.