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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 24, 2005Osceola County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2005, 7:52 AM EDT for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 38 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, 7:52 AM EDT (11:52 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2005, 8:30 AM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Osceola County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:55 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
Oct 23, 9:25 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	14 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 241153
TORMLB
FLC097-241230-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0035.051024T1152Z-051024T1230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
752 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OSCEOLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SAINT CLOUD...NARCOOSSEE...HOLOPAW...
  EAST LAKE TOHO

* UNTIL 830 AM EDT

* AT 749 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH SIGNIFICANT ROTATION NEAR HOLOPAW...MOVING
  NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HARMONY BY 800 AM EDT
  SAINT CLOUD AND NARCOOSSEE BY 810 AM EDT
  EAST LAKE TOHO BY 815 AM EDT

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 2801 8108 2815 8097 2834 8125 2821 8139

$$

RW

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KMLB 241213
SVSMLB

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

FLC097-241230-
/O.CON.KMLB.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-051024T1230Z/
OSCEOLA FL-
811 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 AM EDT FOR NORTHERN
OSCEOLA COUNTY...

AT 810 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED WEST OF HOLOPAW AND 
MOVING WEST AT 45 MPH INTO RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH OF SAINT CLOUD.

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.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 2801 8108 2815 8097 2834 8125 2821 8139

$$

RW

000 
WWUS52 KMLB 241236
SVSMLB

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

FLC097-241246-
/O.EXP.KMLB.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-051024T1230Z/
OSCEOLA FL-
836 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN OSCEOLA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 830 AM
EDT...

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

LAT...LON 2801 8108 2815 8097 2834 8125 2821 8139

$$

RW

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, 4:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	34 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, 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.