Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Melbourne, FL
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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 68 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.