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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 24, 2005Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2005, 4:26 AM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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: Oct 24, 2005, 4:26 AM EDT (08:26 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2005, 5:00 AM EDT
In force: 34 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), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Oct 23, 9:25 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	14 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 19 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: 2790 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 8.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMLB 240828
TORMLB
FLC009-240900-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0030.051024T0826Z-051024T0900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
426 AM EDT MON OCT 24 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...TITUSVILLE AIRPORT...TITUSVILLE...
  SHARPES...PORT SAINT JOHN...PATRICK AIRFORCE BASE...MIMS...MERRITT
  ISLAND...PORT CANAVERAL...COCOA BEACH...COCOA...CAPE CANAVERAL

* UNTIL 500 AM EDT

* AT 423 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO EAST OF  
COCOA   BEACH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  COCOA BEACH...JETTY PARK AND PORT CANAVERAL BY 435 AM EDT
  CAPE CANAVERAL BY 440 AM EDT
  MERRITT ISLAND BY 445 AM EDT
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF COCOA BY 455 AM EDT
  SHARPES...PORT SAINT JOHN...KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AND 6 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF TITUSVILLE AIRPORT BY 500 AM EDT

TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL CYCLONES ARE OFTEN WRAPPED IN
HEAVY RAIN AND ARE HARD TO SEE OR HEAR UNTIL THEY ARE VERY CLOSE. DO
NOT GET CAUGHT OFFGUARD

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR
CLOSET AND 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. HEAD
TO THE NEAREST STURDY BUILDING. PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE
TORNADO AS POSSIBLE.

LAT...LON 2821 8055 2834 8041 2874 8085 2854 8105

$$

DD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KMLB 240847
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
446 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005

FLC009-240900-
/O.CON.KMLB.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-051024T0900Z/
BREVARD FL-
446 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT FOR NORTHERN
BREVARD COUNTY...

AT 445 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED PORT 
CANAVERAL...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  TITUSVILLE BY 450 AM AND LAGRANGE AND MIMS BY 500 AM EDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM EDT MONDAY MORNING
FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2821 8055 2834 8041 2874 8085 2854 8105

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 8:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	48 min
Oct 23, 8:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	48 min
Oct 23, 9:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	49 min
Oct 23, 10:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Lake	56 min
Oct 23, 11:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Lake	63 min
Oct 24, 1:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange	49 min
Oct 24, 2:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Osceola	45 min
Oct 24, 3:50 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Osceola	40 min
Oct 24, 5:18 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	42 min
Oct 24, 6:01 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	44 min
Oct 24, 6:55 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	65 min
Oct 24, 7:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River	50 min
Oct 24, 7:52 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Osceola	38 min
Oct 24, 10:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MLB	Brevard, Orange, Osceola	4 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.