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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 30, 2025Okeechobee County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2025, 6:49 PM EDT for Okeechobee County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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 30, 2025, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2025, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Okeechobee County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 855 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

237 
WUUS52 KMLB 302249
SVRMLB
FLC093-302315-
/O.NEW.KMLB.SV.W.0021.250330T2249Z-250330T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Melbourne FL
649 PM EDT Sun Mar 30 2025

The National Weather Service in Melbourne has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Okeechobee County in east central Florida...

* Until 715 PM EDT.

* At 649 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Buckhead
  Ridge, moving northeast at 30 mph.

  HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
           damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
           wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Four Seasons Estates, Okee Tantie Recreation Area, Treasure Island,
  Okeechobee, and Whispering Pines.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 2717 8088 2716 8089 2717 8091 2719 8091
      2720 8094 2722 8095 2722 8097 2723 8099
      2725 8098 2725 8099 2739 8091 2728 8068
      2719 8075 2721 8079 2720 8083 2714 8087
TIME...MOT...LOC 2249Z 211DEG 24KT 2713 8093 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.50 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

Weitlich

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		30 min
Mar 30, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		62 min
Mar 30, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Lake	24 min
Mar 30, 4:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Lake	17 min
Mar 30, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	45 min
Mar 30, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	28 min
Mar 30, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	29 min
Mar 30, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	23 min
Mar 30, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange, Osceola	47 min
Mar 30, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	19 min
Mar 30, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	30 min
Mar 30, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		66 min
Mar 30, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Volusia	33 min
Mar 30, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard, Orange, Osceola	26 min
Mar 30, 7:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		66 min
Mar 30, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	31 min
Mar 30, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	39 min
Mar 30, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	31 min
Mar 30, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Volusia	29 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.