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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 11, 2005Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2005, 4:39 AM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 11, 2005, 4:39 AM EDT (08:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2005, 5:15 AM EDT
In force: 36 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), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 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 nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 1643 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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 110843
TORMLB
FLC009-110915-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0017.050611T0839Z-050611T0915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
442 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES  
  THE CITIES OF...PALM BAY...MELBOURNE...MALABAR...INDIALANTIC

* UNTIL 515 AM EDT

* AT 440 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MALABAR...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MELBOURNE...MELBOURNE BEACH AND INDIALANTIC BY 450 AM EDT
  MELBOURNE VILLAGE AND WEST MELBOURNE BY 455 AM EDT
  INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH AND SATELLITE BEACH BY 505 AM EDT   

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. ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME OR RV FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GET INTO AN
UNFLOODED DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS AND
ARMS. ABANDON YOUR VEHICLE IF THE TORNADO IS NEARBY.

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE. WATCH FOR THE POPPING OF
ELECTRIC LINES AND TRANSFORMERS OR LISTEN FOR THE SOUND OF LOUD
RUMBLING LIKE AN APPROACHING FREIGHT TRAIN.

LAT...LON 2786 8061 2793 8042 2832 8059 2823 8082

$$

JP

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KMLB 110905
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
503 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005

FLC009-110915-
/O.CON.KMLB.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-050611T0915Z/
BREVARD FL-
503 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 AM EDT FOR EAST CENTRAL
BREVARD COUNTY...

AT 459 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS INDICATED NEAR EAU 
GALLIE...MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS 
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY 
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU 
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE 
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

LAT...LON 2786 8061 2793 8042 2832 8059 2823 8082

$$

SPRATT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 5:15 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		60 min
Jun 11, 5:37 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	26 min
Jun 11, 6:30 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr

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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.