Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 1991, 8:53 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 1991, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1991, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLB 070054 FFWMLB FLC009-071100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 853 PM EDT SUN OCT 6 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS DROPPED HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SCOTTSMOOR AREA OF NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY. THIS RAIN ADDED TO THE HIGH WATER IN THE AREA WHICH REMAINED FROM THE FLOODING LAST WEEK. BREVARD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED STREET CLOSINGS DUE TO THE HIGH WATER THIS EVENING. AT 850 PM ANOTHER RAINSHOWER WAS APPROACHING NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY INCLUDING SCOTTSMOOR. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A HALF AN INCH CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS SHOWER PASSES AND LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE. ALL PEOPLE IN FLOODED AREAS SHOULD TAKE ALL PRECAUTIONS AND FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. RG
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Oct 6, 3:38 PM EDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
FLZ011-017-062145- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 340 PM EDT SUN OCT 6 1991 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS MOVING THE METRO ORLANDO AREA AT 335 PM... A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN ORANGE AND NORTHWESTERN OSCEOLA COUNTIES. THERE WAS HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY OVER ORLANDO. BETWEEN 345 AND 5 PM... THE STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE METRO ORLANDO AREA... FROM KISSIMMEE AND SANFORD. ALL PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO BE PREPARED FOR GUSTY WINDS... NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND DRIVE WITH CAUTION DUE TO REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. ELSEHWERE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTH AND `CENTRAL BREVARD AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. BETWEEN 4 AND 6 PM... THIS ACTIVITY WILL PUSH OFFSHORE AS THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER INTERIOR SECTION APPROACH THE COAST. LIVINGSTON
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 5:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
FLZ011-017-062145- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 505 PM EDT SUN OCT 6 1991 AT 505 PM... A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY FROM TITUSVILLE TO THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED TO NORTH TO SCOTTSMOOR IN NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY AND WEST TO THE ORLANDO AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSOC SCATTERED FROM ST CLOUD SOUTH TO KENANSVILLE AND AROUND SEBASTIAN INLET. STILL OTHER ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD INT FLAGLER COUNTY. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. WITH THE LACK OF RAIN FURTHER TO THE NORTH AND WEST RAIN SHOULD END ACROSS MOST OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA BY 7 PM WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BREVARD AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTIES WHERE SHOWERS COULD LINGER INTO THE EARLY EVENING. RG BETWEEN 4 AND 6 PM... THIS ACTIVITY WILL PUSH OFFSHORE AS THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER INTERIOR SECTION APPROACH THE COAST. LIVINGSTON
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 5:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
FLZ011-017-062145- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 505 PM EDT SUN OCT 6 1991 AT 505 PM... A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY FROM TITUSVILLE TO THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED TO NORTH TO SCOTTSMOOR IN NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY AND WEST TO THE ORLANDO AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSOC SCATTERED FROM ST CLOUD SOUTH TO KENANSVILLE AND AROUND SEBASTIAN INLET. STILL OTHER ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD INT FLAGLER COUNTY. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. WITH THE LACK OF RAIN FURTHER TO THE NORTH AND WEST RAIN SHOULD END ACROSS MOST OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA BY 7 PM WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BREVARD AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTIES WHERE SHOWERS COULD LINGER INTO THE EARLY EVENING. RG
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.