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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 13, 2007Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 15 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: Oct 13, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2007, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Brevard County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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 nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 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 131701
TORMLB
FLC009-131715-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0026.071013T1700Z-071013T1715Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
100 PM EDT SAT OCT 13 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BAREFOOT BAY...

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT

* AT 1255 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL
CLOUD APPROACHING THE SEBASTIAN INLET STATE PARK ON THE BREVARD 
COUNTY SIDE OF THE INLET. THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS MOVING WEST AT 15
MPH.

* THE FUNNEL CLOUD COULD TOUCH DOWN AND BECOME A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IF YOU ARE IN THIS AREA.

LAT...LON 2790 8039 2787 8039 2784 8036 2785 8038
      2784 8042 2788 8055 2796 8047
TIME...MOT...LOC 1700Z 092DEG 11KT 2787 8043

$$


CRISTALDI

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KMLB 131718
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
116 PM EDT SAT OCT 13 2007

FLC009-131724-
/O.EXP.KMLB.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-071013T1715Z/
BREVARD FL-
116 PM EDT SAT OCT 13 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY
EXPIRED AT 115 PM EDT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS IN THE AREA OF SEBASTIAN INLET STATE PARK REPORT 
THAT THE FUNNEL CLOUD MOVED OVER THE PARK...AND THEN DISSIPATED.

SEVERAL SIGHTNINGS OF THE FUNNEL CLOUD WERE REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL 
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE...HOWEVER THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF THE FUNNEL 
CLOUD TOUCHING DOWN OVER LAND.

LAT...LON 2790 8039 2787 8039 2784 8036 2785 8038
      2784 8042 2788 8055 2796 8047
TIME...MOT...LOC 1714Z 092DEG 11KT 2787 8048

$$


CRISTALDI

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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.