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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 24, 2016Lake County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2016, 8:27 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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
Mar 24, 2016, 8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 2016, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Lake County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2016-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 612 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2016-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 167 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.7

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The text

As transmitted.

885 
WUUS52 KMLB 250027
SVRMLB
FLC069-250115-
/O.NEW.KMLB.SV.W.0013.160325T0027Z-160325T0115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
827 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 827 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EMERALDA...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EUSTIS...PAISLEY...LISBON...EMERALDA AND MID FLORIDA LAKES. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 2896 8166 2905 8166 2905 8164 2908 8164
      2912 8153 2892 8142 2885 8181 2896 8185
TIME...MOT...LOC 0027Z 247DEG 11KT 2895 8176 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

SK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 8:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBLake39 min
Mar 24, 8:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBVolusia48 min
Mar 24, 9:10 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBOsceola35 min
Mar 24, 9:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBSeminole52 min
Mar 24, 9:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB97 min
Mar 24, 9:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBOsceola44 min
Mar 24, 9:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBBrevard40 min
Mar 25, 12:26 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBLake, Orange64 min
Mar 25, 12:48 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBVolusia42 min
Mar 25, 1:09 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB51 min
Mar 25, 2:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBBrevard, Orange, Seminole93 min
Mar 25, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard, Orange, Osceola63 min
Mar 25, 3:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBMartin40 min
Mar 25, 3:06 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB84 min
Mar 25, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB119 min
Mar 25, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard, Osceola55 min
Mar 25, 3:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBMartin32 min
Mar 25, 3:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMLBMartin2 hr
Mar 25, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBMartin59 min
Mar 25, 7:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSaint Lucie46 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.