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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Melbourne, FL

May 28, 2006Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2006, 6:13 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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
May 28, 2006, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2006, 6:43 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Orange County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 674 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
674 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMLB 282215
SVRMLB
FLC095-282300-
/O.NEW.KMLB.SV.W.0021.060528T2213Z-060528T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
613 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 613 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT STORMS HAD REINTENSIFIED SOUTHEAST OF THE ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL 
AIRPORT...ALONG THE FLORIDA GREENE WAY AND NEAR BOGGY CREEK ROAD.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELLE ISLE...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONWAY
  9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PINE CASTLE THROUGH 700 PM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN
HOUR AND OR LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING
AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. IF THE STORM APPROACHES
YOU...SEEK SHELTER IN AN ENCLOSED BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. KEEP
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2826 8121 2841 8109 2859 8128 2837 8147

$$


CRISTALDI
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS52 KMLB 282243
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
643 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2006

FLC095-282253-
/O.CAN.KMLB.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060528T2300Z/
ORANGE FL-
643 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

AT 643 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND
WAS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. AS A
RESULT...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 2826 8121 2841 8109 2859 8128 2837 8147

$$


CRISTALDI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBVolusia38 min
May 28, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBLake43 min
May 28, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.