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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL

February 22, 2014Martin County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2014, 5:51 PM EST for Martin County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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 22, 2014, 5:51 PM EST (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2014, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Martin County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 1286 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

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

167 
WFUS52 KMLB 222251
TORMLB
FLC085-222330-
/O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0001.140222T2251Z-140222T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
551 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...JUPITER ISLAND...HOBE SOUND...

* UNTIL 630 PM EST.

* AT 548 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   
  A  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES      
  ALONG INTERSTATE 95 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 125 AND 13 OR WEST OF     
  HOBE SOUND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO      
  THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKER 95 AND 100...JONATHAN     
  DICKINSON STATE PARK AND HOBE SOUND BEACH

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE
PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK
TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE STORM'S PATH AND
TO SHELTER.

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 2697 8014 2695 8015 2695 8020 2701 8030
      2713 8028 2712 8013 2703 8009 2697 8007
TIME...MOT...LOC 2250Z 293DEG 8KT 2706 8023

$$


MOSES

1 follow-up statement

834 
WWUS52 KMLB 222312
SVSMLB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
612 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2014

FLC085-222321-
/O.CAN.KMLB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140222T2330Z/
MARTIN-
612 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MARTIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...THUS THE 
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND 
SMALL HAIL WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE AS THIS STORM MOVES TOWARDS THE 
COAST. 

LAT...LON 2697 8014 2695 8015 2695 8020 2701 8030
      2713 8028 2712 8013 2703 8009 2697 8007
TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 293DEG 8KT 2704 8017

$$





MOSES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 12:28 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	62 min
Feb 22, 1:12 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		93 min
Feb 22, 2:04 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	56 min
Feb 22, 2:42 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Feb 22, 3:00 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	45 min
Feb 22, 3:52 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Saint Lucie	38 min
Feb 22, 5:45 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin	45 min
Feb 22, 5:59 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		61 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.