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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2004, 9:06 PM EDT for Martin County, Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 54 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, 9:06 PM EDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Martin County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMLB 260106
TORMLB
FLC085-111-260200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
858 PM EDT SAT SEP 25 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MARTIN COUNTY
ST. LUCIE COUNTY
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
* AT 855 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING FOR MARTIN AND ST LUCIE COUNTIES MAINLY FOR THE ONSET OF
EXTREME HURRICANE WINDS AND EMBEDDED TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH THE
INNER CORE OF HURRICANE JEANNE AS THE CENTER NEARS THE COAST. WINDS
TO 100 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 120 MPH ARE EXPECTED...ALONG WITH
TORNADOES.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE INDIAN RIVER ESTATES...SAINT
LUCIE VILLAGE...JUPITER ISLAND...LAKEWOOD PARK...NORTH RIVER
SHORES...QUEENS COVE...PORT SALERNO...PORT SAINT LUCIE RIVER
PARK...SAINT LUCIE AIRPORT...SAINT LUCIE WEST...NETTLES ISLAND AND
ROCKY POINT
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A LANDFALLING MAJOR HURRICANE WITH
EMBEDDED TORNADOES 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.
LAT...LON 2763 7974 2778 7987 2756 8034 2757 8063
2696 8063 2699 8010
$$
DS/DDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Indian River, Martin, Saint Lucie | 4 hr |
| Sep 25, 9:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 58 min |
| Sep 25, 11:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 62 min |
| Sep 26, 12:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola, Saint Lucie | 5 hr |
| Sep 26, 2:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 58 min |
| Sep 26, 12:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 6 hr |
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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.