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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 12:30 PM EDT for Brevard County, Orange County, 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 6, 2004, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brevard County, FL, Orange County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 061630 TORMLB FLC009-095-127-061730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1230 PM EDT MON SEP 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS EXTENDED THE * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BREVARD COUNTY EAST CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY SOUTHEASTERN VOLUSIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 1222 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOS EXTENDING FROM THE BEELINE EXPRESSWAY SOUTH OF CHRISTMAS...EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO EDGEWATER. THE STORM CELLS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE STORMS WILL AFFECT THIS AREA THROUGH 130 PM. RESIDENTS SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATLY IF STORMS THREATEN YOUR AREA. 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 2845 8121 2845 8092 2877 8073 2915 8098 $$ BRAGAW
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, 12:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange, Osceola | 24 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.