Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 1989, 3:55 PM EDT for Flagler County, Florida. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 1989, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 1989, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Flagler 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
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 231956
TORDAB
FLC035-232030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL
355 PM EDT SAT SEP 23 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTONA BEACH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
...EASTERN FLAGLER
AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS.
AT 345 PM EDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SIGHTING OF A TORNADO JUST WEST OF
I-95 AND NORTH OF SR-100 IN EASTERN FLAGLER COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS
WAS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARD THE NORTHEAST IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH FLAGLER COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
AS THIS DANGEROUS STORM MOVES OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...
BOATERS IN THE THREATENED AREA SHOULD TAKE ACTION TO AVOID
THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Sep 23, 3:50 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 345 PM EDT SAT SEP 23 1989 THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE FLORIDA EAST COAST DURING THE PAST HOUR...STRETCHING FROM FLAGLER BEACH SOUTH TO DAYTONA BEACH...CAPE CANAVERAL AND VERO BEACH. PEOPLE IN FLAGLER...VOLUSIA...BREVARD AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTIE|S AND BOATERS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
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.