Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1992, 3:48 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 1992, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1992, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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
- 1149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 101947 SVRMLB FLC009-102045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 348 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...MOSQUITO LAGOON TO COCOA BEACH AT 345 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS FROM NEAR SCOTTSMOOR TO WEST OF MIMS AND TITUSVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS CAPE CANAVERAL AND INTO THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. 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 ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. BOATERS AND MARINERS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY IF POSSIBLE. RES
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, 2 hours 10 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, 1 hour 5 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
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 3:33 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-102030- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 334 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 330 PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE FROM OFFSHORE OF PONCE INLET TO EDGEWATER...EXTENDING INLAND TO SCOTTSMOOR...SANFORD AND LONGWOOD. OTHER STORMS WERE FROM BITHLO ACROSS ORLANDO...AND FROM APOPKA TO WEST OF DISNEY. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THROUGH 5 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL CONTINUE FROM NORTH OF CAPE CANAVERAL TO ACROSS SANFORD AND ORLANDO TO DISNEY...APOPKA AND MASCOTTE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE ALONG THE COAST FROM SEBASTIAN TO VERO BEACH AND OVER CAPE CANAVERAL.
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, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 60 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.