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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL

February 26, 2013Lake County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 26, 2013, 11:22 AM EST for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 38 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 26, 2013, 11:22 AM EST (16:22 UTC)
Expired: Feb 26, 2013, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lake County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:23 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 26, 6:49 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 218 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

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

379 
WFUS52 KMLB 261622
TORMLB
FLC069-261700-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0002.130226T1622Z-130226T1700Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1122 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LAKE COUNTY IN FLORIDA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PAISLEY...MOUNT DORA...EUSTIS...
  CASSIA...

* UNTIL NOON EST.

* AT 1121 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MOUNT
  DORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO      
  LAKE KATHRYN HEIGHTS...STATE ROUTE 44...FULLERVILLE AND FOREST     
  HILLS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

&&

LAT...LON 2910 8147 2909 8146 2906 8146 2903 8140
      2892 8135 2889 8135 2884 8140 2878 8166
      2886 8173
TIME...MOT...LOC 1622Z 229DEG 30KT 2885 8164

$$


MOSES

1 follow-up statement

950 
WWUS52 KMLB 261636
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1136 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013

FLC069-261646-
/O.CAN.KMLB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130226T1700Z/
LAKE-
1136 AM EST TUE FEB 26 2013

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN LAKE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE STORM AND TORNADO THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED
AND NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE
WEATHER...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...HEAVY RAIN 
AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EST TUESDAY AFTERNOON
FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2910 8147 2909 8146 2906 8146 2903 8140
      2892 8135 2889 8135 2884 8140 2878 8166
      2886 8173
TIME...MOT...LOC 1636Z 229DEG 30KT 2893 8154

$$


MOSES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 26, 3:50 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	MLB	Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia	15 hr
Feb 26, 4:04 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	MLB		24 hr
Feb 26, 10:40 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Lake	50 min
Feb 26, 10:40 AM EST	Tornado Warning	MLB	Lake	20 min
Feb 26, 12:43 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		92 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.