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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT for Martin County, Okeechobee County, Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Martin County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 25, 4:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 252230 TORMLB FLC085-093-111-252300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 630 PM EDT SAT SEP 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MARTIN COUNTY SOUTHEASTERN OKEECHOBEE COUNTY WESTERN ST. LUCIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 628 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FOUR SEASONS ESTATES...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDRIO...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOUR SEASONS ESTATES AT 645 PM EDT NEAR TAYLOR CREEK...8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OKEECHOBEE AT 650 PM EDT 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 2745 8040 2756 8060 2665 8132 2650 8107 $$ BRAGAW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River, Okeechobee | 29 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.