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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2005, 5:37 AM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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, 5:37 AM EDT (09:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2005, 6:03 AM EDT
- In force
- 26 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), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 110941 TORMLB FLC009-111015- /O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0018.050611T0937Z-050611T1015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 537 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SHARPES...ROCKLEDGE...PORT SAINT JOHN...MERRITT ISLAND...MELBOURNE...PORT CANAVERAL...SATELLITE BEACH...COCOA BEACH...COCOA...CAPE CANAVERAL * UNTIL 615 AM EDT * AT 535 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY SHOWER WITH SIGNIFICANT ROTATION 1 MILE OFFSHORE INDIALANTIC...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS HEAVY SHOWER LIKELY CONTAINS A TORNADIC WATERSPOUT WHICH WILL PARALLEL THE COAST THEN MOVE ONSHORE NEAR THE PINEDA CAUSEWAY AND A1A. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE AND SUNTREE BY 550 AM EDT MERRITT ISLAND...COCOA BEACH AND ROCKLEDGE BY 610 AM EDT...AND CAPE CANAVERAL BY 615 AM EDT TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE. WATCH FOR THE POPPING OF ELECTRIC LINES AND TRANSFORMERS OR LISTEN FOR THE SOUND OF LOUD RUMBLING AS THAT OF AN APPROACHING FREIGHT TRAIN. TORNADOES ARE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH STORMS WHICH ALSO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 2805 8064 2811 8045 2854 8058 2846 8085 $$ SPRATT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMLB 111003 SVSMLB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 602 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005 FLC009-111012- /O.CAN.KMLB.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-050611T1015Z/ BREVARD FL- 602 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 602 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE ROTATION WITH THE CELLS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY HAD WEAKENED AND THE CELL NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. AS A RESULT...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 2805 8064 2811 8045 2854 8058 2846 8085 $$ CRISTALDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 5:15 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 60 min | |
| Jun 11, 6:30 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr |
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.