Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2004, 11:58 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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, 11:58 PM EDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2004, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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 |
| Sep 25, 11:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 260358 TORMLB FLC009-260500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1158 PM EDT SAT SEP 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 1151 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY FOR THE ONSET OF EXTREME HURRICANE WINDS AND EMBEDDED TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH THE INNER CORE OF HURRICANE JEANNE AS THE CENTER MOVES ONSHORE SAINT LUCIE AND MARTIN COUNTIES. * WINDS TO 90 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 110 MPH ARE EXPECTED...ALONG WITH TORNADOES. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FLORIDANA BEACH...BAREFOOT BAY... MALABAR...GRANT...VALKARIA...PALM BAY...MELBOURNE...MELBOURNE BEACH ...INDIALANTIC...INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH...AND SATELLITE BEACH. 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 2785 8086 2783 8047 2815 8058 2813 8085 $$ CRISTALDI/SHARP
The 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, 9:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Martin, Saint Lucie | 54 min |
| Sep 25, 9:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 58 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 |
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.