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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 27, 2005, 4:07 PM EST for Brevard 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
- Feb 27, 2005, 4:07 PM EST (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2005, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 23 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), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 9 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 WFUS52 KMLB 272107 TORMLB FLC009-272130- /O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0003.050227T2107Z-050227T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 407 PM EST SUN FEB 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PORT CANAVERAL...COCOA BEACH...CAPE CANAVERAL * UNTIL 430 PM EST * AT 401 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH SIGNIFICANT ROTATION NEAR CAPE CANAVERAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN BREVARD COUNTY AT 420 PM EST 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 2839 8072 2829 8067 2843 8032 2862 8046 $$ 28
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMLB 272119 SVSMLB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 419 PM EST SUN FEB 27 2005 FLC009-272129- /O.CAN.KMLB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050227T2130Z/ BREVARD FL- 419 PM EST SUN FEB 27 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 419 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. AS A RESULT...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 2839 8072 2829 8067 2843 8032 2862 8046 $$
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, 5:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 13 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.