Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1992, 5:40 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1992, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 KMLB 192141 SVRMLB FLC095-192230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 540 PM EDT WED AUG 19 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL FLORIDA ...ORANGE COUNTY AT 540 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR DISNEY WORLD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD RO^ADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Aug 19, 4:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
FLZ009-192215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 415 PM EDT WED AUG 19 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR MARION COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE WEST PART OF MARION COUNTY...MAINLY 15 MILES WEST OF OCALA...AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE COUNTY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. REMEMBER...THE SAFEST PLACE DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE CAUTION IN THE HEAVIER DOWNPOURS FOR REDUCED VISIBILTIES AND PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:27 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
FLZ011-192230- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 526 PM EDT WED AUG 19 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF LAKE APOPKA... AT 525 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTH OF LAKE APOPKA NEAR WINTER GARDEN. THE THUNDERSTORM HAD DECEASED IN INTENSITY BUT OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING SOUTH OF WINTER GARDEN TO JUST SOUTH OF CLERMONT. THE THUNDERSTROMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY...AND WILL PROFDUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS AND SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. REPORT AND SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:31 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
FLZ012-192330- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 530 PM EDT WED AUG 19 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES... STRONG THUNERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE SOUTH PART OF FLAGLER COUNTY AND OVER VOLUSIA COUNTY JUST WEST AND NORTHWEST OF DAYTONA BEACH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST AND WILL BE MOVING OVER THE COASTAL WATERS EARLY THIS EVENING. BOATERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HIGH WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS. REMEMBER...THE SAFEST PLACXE DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IN THE HEAVIER DOWNPOURS FOR REDUCED VISIBILITY AND FOR PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 70 min |
| Aug 19, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 60 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.