Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1991, 3:15 PM EST for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 1991, 3:15 PM EST (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1991, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -564 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -546 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 022019 RRA SVRDAB FLC083-022215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 315 PM EST SAT MAR 2 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTONA BEACH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNU 5EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA ...MARION COUNTY AT 3155EST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL PART OF MARION COUNTY...AND ANOTHER LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE WEST END OF MARION COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING 2WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Mar 2, 2:55 PM EST, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 250 PM EST SAT MAR 2 1991 .......STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO MARION COUNTY...... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL OR MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF MARION COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL FLORIDA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD AT ABOUT 45 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS MARION COUNTY FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. PLEASE LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMANTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THESE THUNDERSTORMS. REPEATING...THE TORNADO DRILL IS TERMINATED AT THIS TIME.
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 2:57 PM EST, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 250 PM EST SAT MAR 2 1991 .......STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO MARION COUNTY...... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL OR MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF MARION COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL FLORIDA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD AT ABOUT 45 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS MARION COUNTY FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. PLEASE LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMANTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
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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.