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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 2007, 5:15 AM EST for Lake County, Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 2, 2007, 5:15 AM EST (10:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2007, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:52 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 586 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMLB 021015
TORMLB
FLC069-095-021100-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0007.070202T1015Z-070202T1100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
515 AM EST FRI FEB 2 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FERNDALE...
NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ZELLWOOD...WINTER GARDEN...PINE
HILLS...OCOEE...LOCKHART...LAKE APOPKA...FOREST CITY...APOPKA...
* UNTIL 600 AM EST
* AT 515 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FERNDALE...
MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
LAKE APOPKA BY 520 AM EST...
WINTER GARDEN AND ZELLWOOD BY 525 AM EST...
APOPKA AND OCOEE BY 530 AM EST...
FOREST CITY...LOCKHART...WEKIWA SPRINGS STATE PARK AND 6 MILES
NORTH OF PINE HILLS BY 535 AM EST...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 2867 8187 2850 8182 2852 8140 2863 8146
2878 8143
$$
151 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KMLB 021031
SVSMLB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
529 AM EST FRI FEB 2 2007
FLC069-095-021100-
/O.CON.KMLB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070202T1100Z/
ORANGE FL-LAKE FL-
529 AM EST FRI FEB 2 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR SOUTHERN
LAKE AND NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTIES...
AT 529 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR APOPKA...
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
APOPKA AND WEKIWA SPRINGS STATE PARK BY 540 AM...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST FRIDAY MORNING FOR
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 2867 8187 2850 8182 2852 8140 2863 8146
2878 8143
$$
15The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 39 min |
| Feb 2, 1:11 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 64 min | |
| Feb 2, 1:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 48 min |
| Feb 2, 3:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 56 min |
| Feb 2, 3:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 26 min |
| Feb 2, 3:50 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 115 min | |
| Feb 2, 4:10 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 27 min |
| Feb 2, 4:46 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake | 29 min |
| Feb 2, 5:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 42 min |
| Feb 2, 5:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Seminole | 35 min |
| Feb 2, 6:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard, Volusia | 29 min |
| Feb 2, 6:20 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 85 min | |
| Feb 2, 7:38 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 97 min | |
| Feb 2, 9:30 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River | 45 min |
| Feb 2, 9:52 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 53 min | |
| Feb 2, 12:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River, Saint Lucie | 29 min |
| Feb 2, 12:26 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 64 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.