Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2005, 5:05 PM EST for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 13 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
- Feb 27, 2005, 5:05 PM EST (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2005, 5:18 PM EST
- In force
- 13 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), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 10:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMLB 272205 SVRMLB FLC009-272215- /O.NEW.KMLB.SV.W.0002.050227T2205Z-050227T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 505 PM EST SUN FEB 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MALABAR...GRANT...BAREFOOT BAY * UNTIL 515 PM EST * AT 501 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MALABAR...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BAREFOOT BAY AND MICCO BY 510 PM EST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR AND OR LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. IF THE STORM APPROACHES YOU...SEEK SHELTER IN AN ENCLOSED BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 2804 8062 2787 8068 2775 8031 2794 8024 $$ 28
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMLB 272218 SVSMLB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 517 PM EST SUN FEB 27 2005 FLC009-272227- /O.EXP.KMLB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050227T2215Z/ BREVARD FL- 517 PM EST SUN FEB 27 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY EXPIRED AT 515 PM EST... AT 517 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. AS A RESULT...THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST BREVARD COUNTY. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF BY 6 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 2804 8062 2787 8068 2775 8031 2794 8024 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 30 min |
| Feb 27, 3:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 32 min |
| Feb 27, 3:59 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 91 min | |
| Feb 27, 4:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 23 min |
| Feb 27, 5:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Okeechobee, Osceola | 31 min |
| Feb 27, 5:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 31 min |
| Feb 27, 6:09 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 66 min | |
| Feb 27, 6:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 33 min |
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.