Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 1992, 5:33 PM EST for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1992, 5:33 PM EST (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1992, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 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 102236 COR SVRDAB FLC083-102315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 533 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTONA BEACH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA ...MARION COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR ACROSS MARION COUNTY FROM NORTH OF OCALA TO OCALA AND TO THE SOUTHWEST OF OCALA AND WERE MOVING EAST 25 MPH. HAIL WAS REPORTED IN NORTHWEST MARION COUNTY AROUND 515 PM EST AND A POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC IN THE TOP OF THE WORLD AREA NEAR OCALA AROUND THE SAME TIME. 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 QU=ICKLY 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, Mar 10, 5:10 PM EST, 23 minutes before
FLZ009-102315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 510 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 THIS IS A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR MARION COUNTY... AT 510 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF GAINESVILLE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MARION COUNTY TO THE WEST COAST NEAR CRYSTAL RIVER. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...AND BY VERY HEAVY RAINS CAUSING RAPID FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO BE PREPARED FRO THE APPROACH OF THESE STOaRMS AND EXERCISE LIGHTING SAFETY RULES...MOTORISTS SHOULD EXPECT DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION...DELAYING DRIVING IF AT ALL POSSIBLE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.
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.