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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 23, 2014, 3:47 PM EST for Lake County, Orange County, Seminole County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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 23, 2014, 3:47 PM EST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2014, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
329 WFUS52 KMLB 232047 TORMLB FLC069-095-117-232130- /O.NEW.KMLB.TO.W.0005.140223T2047Z-140223T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 347 PM EST SUN FEB 23 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL LAKE COUNTY IN FLORIDA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MOUNT PLYMOUTH...MOUNT DORA... CASSIA... NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN FLORIDA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ZELLWOOD... NORTHWESTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY IN FLORIDA... * UNTIL 430 PM EST. * AT 345 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MOUNT DORA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WEKIWA SPRINGS STATE PARK PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND 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. && LAT...LON 2895 8138 2870 8137 2871 8171 2883 8173 TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 264DEG 24KT 2879 8164 $$ MOSES
1 follow-up statement
689 WWUS52 KMLB 232101 SVSMLB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 401 PM EST SUN FEB 23 2014 FLC069-095-117-232130- /O.CON.KMLB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-140223T2130Z/ SEMINOLE-ORANGE-LAKE- 401 PM EST SUN FEB 23 2014 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM EST FOR EAST CENTRAL LAKE...NORTHWESTERN ORANGE AND NORTHWESTERN SEMINOLE COUNTIES... AT 357 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNT PLYMOUTH... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROCK SPRINGS...CASSIA AND WEKIWA SPRINGS STATE PARK PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR CLOSET. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. && LAT...LON 2874 8161 2883 8162 2892 8138 2870 8137 TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 270DEG 25KT 2879 8153 $$ MOSES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 5:42 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | MLB | Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole | 4 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:11 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Flagler | 34 min |
| Feb 23, 2:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 44 min |
| Feb 23, 2:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 26 min |
| Feb 23, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 60 min |
| Feb 23, 2:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 63 min |
| Feb 23, 3:04 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 56 min | |
| Feb 23, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Seminole | 54 min |
| Feb 23, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 49 min |
| Feb 23, 3:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 29 min |
| Feb 23, 4:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard, Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 66 min |
| Feb 23, 4:29 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr |
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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.