Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 2006, 2:21 PM EDT for Okeechobee County, Florida. It was in force for 9 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
- Aug 21, 2006, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2006, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Okeechobee County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 981 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMLB 211821 TORMLB FLC093-211830- /O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0006.060821T1821Z-060821T1830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 221 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN OKEECHOBEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FORT DRUM * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 219 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM SAINT LUCIE AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES REPORTED A TORNADO ALONG HIGHWAY 70...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF OKEECHOBEE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR... RURAL AREAS EAST OF FOUR SEASONS ESTATES BY 230 PM 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 2715 8071 2727 8056 2761 8083 2743 8106 $$ CRISTALDI
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMLB 211833 SVSMLB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 232 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 FLC093-211842- /O.EXP.KMLB.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-060821T1830Z/ OKEECHOBEE FL- 232 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN OKEECHOBEE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 230 PM EDT... NO FURTHER REPORTS OF A TORNADO HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN OKEECHOBEE COUNTY. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. FUNNEL CLOUDS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS CELL AS IT MOVES TOWARD FORT DRUM. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF DAMAGE OR SIGHTINGS TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MELBOURNE. LAT...LON 2715 8071 2727 8056 2761 8083 2743 8106 $$
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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.