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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Melbourne, FL

May 25, 2005Martin County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2005, 3:50 PM EDT for Martin County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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: May 25, 2005, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2005, 4:13 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Martin County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMLB 251953
TORMLB
FLC085-252030-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0016.050525T1950Z-050525T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
350 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...STUART...PALM CITY...JENSEN BEACH

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 347 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH SIGNIFICANT ROTATION 5 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF STUART...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH ALONG THE SEA BREEZE.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 
  STUART...ROCKY POINT AND PORT SALERNO.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR CLOSET.
KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF
STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO
SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. ABANDON YOUR VEHICLE IF THE
TORNADO IS NEARBY.

LAT...LON 2729 8023 2718 8039 2703 8028 2718 8010

$$
BH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KMLB 252013
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
411 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2005

FLC085-252021-
/O.CAN.KMLB.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-050525T2030Z/
MARTIN FL-
411 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MARTIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 411 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO HAD WEAKENED RAPIDLY AND EXITED THE 
WARNED AREA...MOVING OUT OVER THE OCEAN AND THUS THE WARNING HAS 
BEEN CANCELLED. HAIL UP ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES WAS REPORTED ALONG 
THE JENSEN BEACH CAUSEWAY AT 355 PM WITH THIS STORM. 

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2729 8023 2718 8039 2703 8028 2718 8010

$$
BH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Saint Lucie	65 min
May 25, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
May 25, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Osceola	38 min
May 25, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Okeechobee	45 min
May 25, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	56 min
May 25, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Saint Lucie	62 min
May 25, 3:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Saint Lucie	52 min
May 25, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		94 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.