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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Melbourne, FL

November 7, 2006Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 2006, 5:36 PM EST for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 24 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: Nov 7, 2006, 5:36 PM EST (22:36 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 2006, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 24 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), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMLB 072238
TORMLB
FLC095-072300-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0009.061107T2236Z-061107T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
536 PM EST TUE NOV 7 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...BUENA
  VENTURA LAKES

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 535 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BUENA VENTURA LAKES...OR ABOUT NEAR KISSIMMEE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  BUENA VENTURA LAKES BY 545 PM EST
  ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BY 555 PM EST
  LAKE MARY JANE BY 600 PM EST

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
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 2828 8154 2821 8147 2839 8105 2857 8120

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KMLB 072300
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
557 PM EST TUE NOV 7 2006

FLC095-097-072307-
/O.EXP.KMLB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-061107T2300Z/
OSCEOLA FL-ORANGE FL-
557 PM EST TUE NOV 7 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ORANGE AND NORTHWESTERN
OSCEOLA COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 600 PM EST...

THE TORNADO WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM. HOWEVER...THESE 
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND 
ADDITIONAL TORNADOES...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ORLANDO.

LAT...LON 2828 8154 2818 8143 2839 8105 2857 8120

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 6:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MLB	Seminole	51 min
Nov 7, 6:37 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MLB	Volusia	38 min
Nov 7, 6:40 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		88 min

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.