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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 6, 2004Saint Lucie County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 2004, 4:27 PM EDT for Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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 6, 2004, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Saint Lucie County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 1284 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KMLB 062027
TORMLB
FLC111-062100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
426 PM EDT FRI AUG 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ST. LUCIE COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 425 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  LAKEWOOD PARK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SAINT LUCIE COUNTY EMERGNECY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR 
SPANISH LAKES FAIRWAYS...AT THE INTERSECTION OF INDRIO ROAD AND
INTERSTATE 95.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR INDRIO...SAINT LUCIE VILLAGE AT 435 PM EDT

THIS STORM SHOWED SIGNS OF ROTATION AND COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
ANY TIME. DONT GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD

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 SUCH AS A
BATHROOM OR CLOSET. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF NECESSARY...GET UNDER
A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR
PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

LAT...LON 2752 8032 2749 8029 2746 8029 2743 8032
      2743 8039 2755 8053 2755 8032

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CRISTALDI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 6, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB	2 hr
Aug 6, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB	2 hr
Aug 6, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB	59 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.