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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 23, 2005Lake County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2005, 5:57 AM EST for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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: Mar 23, 2005, 5:57 AM EST (10:57 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2005, 6:30 AM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lake County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:00 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
Mar 23, 4:50 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 3086 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.3
Supercell composite: 22.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMLB 231058
TORMLB
FLC069-231130-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0009.050323T1057Z-050323T1130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
557 AM EST WED MAR 23 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PAISLEY...MOUNT DORA...EUSTIS

* UNTIL 630 AM EST

* AT 555 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH SIGNIFICANT ROTATION NEAR EUSTIS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PAISLEY BY 605 AM 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 2892 8180 2878 8167 2900 8133 2916 8149

$$

RL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 7:57 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Mar 23, 2:34 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		86 min
Mar 23, 6:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Lake, Orange	47 min
Mar 23, 6:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Volusia	32 min
Mar 23, 6:36 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		84 min
Mar 23, 7:10 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		95 min
Mar 23, 11:17 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		88 min

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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.