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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 7, 2006Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 2006, 7:51 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 29 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 7, 2006, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Oct 7, 2006, 8:20 PM EDT
In force: 29 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 7, 7:55 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Apopka, FL	PRELIMINARY REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES
Oct 7, 7:57 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Apopka, FL
Oct 7, 8:00 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Apopka, FL	ROOF COLLAPSE 201 S. FOREST AVE. 75 PEOPLE DISPLACED. TREE DAMAGE IN SAME AREA. POSSIBLE TORNADO.
Oct 7, 8:00 PM EDT	TORNADO	Apopka, FL	NWS PERSONNEL SURVEYED THE DAMAGE WHICH OCCURRED IN APOPKA LAST EVENING AND DETERMINED THAT A BRIEF TOUCHDOWN PRODUCING F0 DAMAGE OCCURRED AT ABOUT 800 PM. A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF A FLAT TAR/ASPHALT ROOF WAS PEELED OFF OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING, EXPOSING THE I
Oct 7, 8:02 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Apopka, FL	PRELIMINARY REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 792 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 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 
WFUS52 KMLB 072354
TORMLB
FLC095-080020-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0008.061007T2351Z-061008T0020Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
751 PM EDT SAT OCT 7 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WINTER PARK...PINE HILLS...OCOEE...
  OAK RIDGE...LOCKHART...FOREST CITY...ORLANDO...FAIRVIEW SHORES...
  AZALEA PARK...APOPKA...MAITLAND

* UNTIL 820 PM EDT

* AT 750 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR APOPKA...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  LOCKHART AND PINE HILLS BY 800 PM EDT
  FAIRVIEW SHORES...EATONVILLE...ORLOVISTA AND MAITLAND BY 805 PM EDT
  WINTER PARK BY 810 PM EDT
  ORLANDO...AZALEA PARK AND 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF OAK RIDGE BY 815 PM
  EDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
QUARTER-SIZED HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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 2877 8147 2865 8162 2841 8146 2857 8123

$$



BRAGAW

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KMLB 080020
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
820 PM EDT SAT OCT 7 2006

FLC095-080030-
/O.EXP.KMLB.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-061008T0020Z/
ORANGE FL-
820 PM EDT SAT OCT 7 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 820 PM
EDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS LOST SOME 
ORGANIZATION...BUT REMAINS QUITE STRONG.  THE STORM IS MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH TOWARD DOWNTOWN ORLANDO.

THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED...AND NO OTHER WARNINGS ARE IN 
EFFECT AT THIS TIME.  HOWEVER...THE STORM COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS 
UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL.  IF THE STORM RE-STRENGTHENS...A NEW 
WARNING WILL BE ISSUED. 


LAT...LON 2877 8147 2865 8162 2841 8146 2857 8123

$$


BRAGAW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 7, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Lake, Orange	67 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.