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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 5, 2004Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2004, 3:50 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 25 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: Aug 5, 2004, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 25 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), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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 nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 490 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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 051950
TORMLB
FLC009-052015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
350 PM EDT THU AUG 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 344 PM EDT...STORM SPOTTERS SIGHTED A WATERSPOUT APPROACHING THE
  SHORELINE EAST OF SCOTTSMOOR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE WATERSPOUT IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR HAULOVER CANAL AT 355 PM EDT
  NEAR KLONDIKE BEACH AT 405 PM EDT
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MERRITT ISLAND WILDLIFE REFUGE AT 415 PM EDT

THIS WATERSPOUT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO MOVE ONSHORE AND BECOME A THREAT
TO LIFE AND PROPERTY.

WHENEVER A WATERSPOUT MOVES ONSHORE IT SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE A
TORNADO. ALTHOUGH TYPICALLY WEAKER AND SHORTER LIVED...A LANDFALLING
WATERSPOUT CAN STILL CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY...OR IN EXTREME SITUATIONS
EVEN DEATH. IT CAN ALSO PRODUCE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

BOATERS ON THE INTRACOASTAL OR NEARSHORE WATERS IN THIS VICINITY
SHOULD REMAIN VIGILANT. WHEN A WATERSPOUT IS SIGHTED...MOVE AWAY FROM
IT AT RIGHT ANGLES. BE SURE THAT EVERYONE ON YOUR BOAT IS WEARING A
LIFE JACKET.

LAT...LON 2888 8082 2871 8091 2855 8058 2875 8047

$$

CRISTALDI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Aug 5, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Aug 5, 4:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	29 min
Aug 5, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		119 min
Aug 5, 4:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	29 min

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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.