Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 8, 1986, 10:00 AM EST for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 8, 1986, 10:00 AM EST (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 8, 1986, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 11:30 AM EST | Hail 1.75 | Lake, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Feb 8, 4:31 AM EST, 5 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ORLANDO FL 0430 AM EST SAT FEB 8 1986 EARLY MORNING FOG FORMING OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO LESS THAN 1 MILE IN MOST AREAS OF ORANGE, LAKE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES, WITH NEAR ZERO CONDITIONS PARTICULARLY NEAR SUNRISE. THIS CONDITION WILL PERSIST TO MID-MORNING, AND MOTORISTS SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME FOR TRAVEL.
Special weather statement, Feb 8, 4:36 AM EST, 5 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ORLANDO FL 0430 AM EST SAT FEB 8 1986 EARLY MORNING FOG FORMING OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO LESS THAN 1 MILE IN MOST AREAS OF ORANGE,LAKE,SEMINOLE, AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES, WITH NEAR ZERO CONDITIONS PARTICULARLY NEAR SUNRISE. THIS CONDITION WILL PERSIST TO MID-MORNING, AND MOTORISTS SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME FOR TRAVEL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Marion | 60 min |
| Feb 8, 11:10 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Marion | 50 min |
| Feb 8, 12:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Marion | 90 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.