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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 25, 2004Indian River County, Okeechobee County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2004, 5:51 PM EDT for Indian River County, Okeechobee County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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 25, 2004, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2004, 6:20 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Indian River County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 25, 4:25 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 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 252151
TORMLB
FLC061-093-252220-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
551 PM EDT SAT SEP 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY
  OKEECHOBEE COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 620 PM EDT

* AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BLUE CYPRESS 
LAKE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 55 MPH...TOWARD NORTHEASTERN OKEECHOBEE 
COUNTY INCLUDING FORT DRUM.


THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS
TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND BODY.

EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO
SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST UNFLOODED DITCH...
CULVERT...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A NEARBY TORNADO IN YOUR CAR.

LAT...LON 2782 8066 2786 8083 2758 8110 2745 8078

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	30 min
Sep 25, 6:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Orange	29 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.