Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1986, 1:15 PM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1986, 1:15 PM EST (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1986, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDAB 161817 SVRDAB FLC127-161900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 115 PM EST SUN MAR 16 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...SOUTHERN VOLUSIA ...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE COUNTY JUST MENTIONED RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR OSTEEN MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT 40 MPH. REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF SMALL HAIL IN THIS AREA DURING THE PAST TEN MINUTES AND STRONG DANGEROUS WINDS HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS S<TORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY ! MARINERS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE APPROACH OF THREATENING WEATHER AND TAKE NECESSARY EVASIVE ACTIONS...
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 7:45 AM EST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 745 AM EST SUN MAR 16 1986 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM FOR MARION..FLAGLER.. VOLUSIA..BREVARD AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTIES AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE GULF COAST AND OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM THE TAMPA BAY AREA NORTH TO BAYPORT. THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE INTERIOR OF NORTH FLORIDA BETWEEN LAKE CITY AND JACKSONVILLE AND OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA BETWEEN LAKELAND AND ORLANDO. RAIN WAS ALONG THE EAST COAST AND OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM BETWEEN DAYTONA BEACH AND MELBOURNE AND FARTHER SOUTH FROM VERO BEACH TO FORT PIERCE. MOVEMENT WAS RAPIDLY EAST AT 45 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Marion | 49 min |
| Mar 16, 9:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Marion | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 9:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Flagler, Volusia | 66 min |
| Mar 16, 1:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Flagler, Volusia | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.