Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 2004, 2:32 AM EDT for Indian River County, Florida. It was in force for 58 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 26, 2004, 2:32 AM EDT (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2004, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Indian River County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:35 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, 11:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 260632 TORMLB FLC061-260730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 230 AM EDT SUN SEP 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... INDIAN RIVER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 330 AM EDT * AT 230 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ROTATION WITH WESTWARD MOVING SHOWERS IN THE NORTHERN EYEWALL OF HURRICANE JEANNE ACROSS INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS WHICH MAY EXPERIENCE A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN INCLUDE ...VERO BEACH...BLUE CYPRESS LAKE...GIFFORD...INDIAN RIVER SHORES...AND VERO LAKE ESTATES. 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. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO CONTINUES THROUGH 6 AM. LAT...LON 2752 8043 2770 8038 2799 8151 2773 8158 $$ VOLKMER
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 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, 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.