Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1991, 3:22 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1991, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1991, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 709 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, May 14, 2:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
FLZ012-141930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 208 PM EDT TUE MAY 14 1991 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VOLUSIA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTOMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF VOLUSIA CO7UNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. BOATERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS AS THE MOVE OFFSHORE.
Special weather statement, May 14, 2:48 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-141945- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 248 PM EDT TUE MAY 14 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER OSCEOLA COUNTY... AT 235 PM AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE GUSTY WINDS WERE FROM COCOA BEACH TO HOLOPAW ...ST CLOUD AND LAKELAND. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST SOUTH OF KISSIMMEE TO WEST OF HOLOPAW. PERSONS IN OSCEOLA COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE COUNTY AND WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES OFFSHORE OF DAYTONA BEACH TO DELAND TO CLERMONT NORTH TO BELLVIEW. SOME OF THESE STORMS ALSO CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS. ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WITH THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY OVcER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL OSCEOLA COUNTY AND 15 MILES NORTH OF LEESBURG. NO RAIN IS EXPECTED IN AN AREA BOUNDED FROM TITUSVILLE TO ORLANDO TO LONGWOOD. R.SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Palm Beach | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.