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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2016, 2:53 PM EDT for Lake County, Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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
- Sep 1, 2016, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted.
778 WUUS52 KMLB 011853 SVRMLB FLC069-095-011930- /O.NEW.KMLB.SV.W.0065.160901T1853Z-160901T1930Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 253 PM EDT THU SEP 1 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... CENTRAL LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 251 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER FERNDALE... MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... APOPKA...OCOEE...WINTER GARDEN...EUSTIS AND TAVARES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMAIN ALERT FOR A POSSIBLE TORNADO! TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU SPOT A TORNADO GO AT ONCE INTO THE BASEMENT OR SMALL CENTRAL ROOM IN A STURDY STRUCTURE. && A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2893 8171 2889 8141 2854 8158 2858 8176 TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 196DEG 24KT 2863 8167 TORNADO...POSSIBLE HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ BRAGAW
1 follow-up statement
403
WWUS52 KMLB 011927
SVSMLB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
327 PM EDT THU SEP 1 2016
FLC069-095-011937-
/O.EXP.KMLB.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-160901T1930Z/
ORANGE FL-LAKE FL-
327 PM EDT THU SEP 1 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN ORANGE AND
CENTRAL LAKE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 330 PM EDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE...THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR EAST CENTRAL
FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 2893 8171 2889 8141 2854 8158 2858 8176
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 196DEG 24KT 2863 8167
$$
BRAGAWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 10:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie | 59 min |
| Aug 31, 10:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 2 hr | |
| Aug 31, 11:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Brevard, Indian River | 32 min |
| Sep 1, 4:07 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | MLB | 42 hr | |
| Sep 1, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Indian River | 55 min |
| Sep 1, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Saint Lucie | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Osceola | 42 min |
| Sep 1, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Seminole | 45 min |
| Sep 1, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 84 min | |
| Sep 1, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange | 25 min |
| Sep 1, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 66 min | |
| Sep 1, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Okeechobee | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 59 min | |
| Sep 1, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Seminole, Volusia | 39 min |
| Sep 1, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 36 min |
| Sep 1, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 85 min | |
| Sep 1, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Indian River, Saint Lucie | 67 min |
| Sep 1, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Osceola | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 4:28 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | MLB | 23 hr | |
| Sep 1, 4:41 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | MLB | Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 23 hr |
| Sep 1, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Volusia | 53 min |
| Sep 1, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 54 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.