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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 7, 1988Brevard County, Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1988, 4:56 PM EDT for Brevard County, Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1988, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1988, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brevard County, FL, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 12:00Z on 1988-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1007 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 12:00Z on 1988-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
1007 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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, Jun 7, 3:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ORLANDO FL
340 PM EDT MON JUN 6 1988

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER LAKE COUNTY...

AT 335 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN UMATILLA AND MASCOTTE. THEY WERE MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH AND SHOULD ENTER NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY WITHIN THE
NEXT 15 MINUTES.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN..LOCALLY STRONG
GUSTY WINDS..FREQUENT LIGHT~NING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ORLANDO FL
340 PM EDT TUE JUN 7 1988

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER LAKE COUNTY...

AT 335 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN UMATILLA AND MASCOTTE. THEY WERE MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH AND SHOULD ENTER NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY WITHIN THE
NEXT 15 MINUTES.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN..LOCALLY STRONG
GUSTY WINDS..FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 4:25 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange64 min
Jun 7, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSeminole68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.