Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1992, 3:00 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 1992, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1992, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1050 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 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 101901 SVRDAB FLC127-102000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 300 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTONA BEACH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...VOLUSIA COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...DAYTONA BEACH SOUTH TO PONCE DE LEON INLET AND MOSQUITO LAGOON. A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE EAST COAST AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM DAYTONA BEACH SOUTH TO NEW SMYRNA BEACH AND OAK HILL...REACHING INLAND TO OSTEEN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...BOATERS IN THE THREATENED AREA CAN EXPECT STRONG WINDS...ROUGH SEAS AND LIGHTNING. BOATERS SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO AVOID THE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS.
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, Sep 10, 1:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
FLZ012-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 135 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER MOST OF FLAGLER COUNTY AND OVER THE NORTH PART OF VOLUSIA COUNTY...MAINLY FROM JUST WEST OF DAYTONA BEACH INLAND TO BARBERVILLE AND LAKE GEORGE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PUSHING EAST AT 10 MPH AND WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM MARINELAND SOUTH TO FLAGLER BEACH AND DAYTONA BEACH AND WILL SPREAD FARTHER SOUTH ALONG THE COAST DURING THE MID AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE MENTIONED AREA. BOATERS ON THE INLAND WATERWAYS AND ON THE COASTAL WATERS... MAINLY FROM MARINELAND SOUTH TO DAYTONA BEACH AND PONCE DE LEON INLET SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS AND LIGHTING IN THE VICINITY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. REMEMBER...THE SAFEST PLACE DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION IN THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 2:43 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-101945- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 244 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 240 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM ST AUGUSTINE TO DAYTONA BEACH AND EDGEWATER...EXTENDING ACROSS ORLANDO TO MASCOTTE AND ZEPHYRHILLS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY UNTIL 3 PM. ALL OF THIS ACTVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. BETWEEN 3 AND 5 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WITH THE STRONGEST STRORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY AND CONTINUING OVER VOLUSIA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN VEdRY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO INTENSIFYING OVER ORANGE AND SEMINOLE COUNTIES AND MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WITH FRQUENT LIGHTNING AS WELL. R.SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 55 min |
| Sep 10, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.