Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1992, 5:18 PM EST for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 1992, 5:18 PM EST (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1992, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:05 PM EST | Hail 1 | Marion, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 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 252220 RRA SVRDAB FLC083-252315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 518 PM EST WED MAR 25 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 AT 520 PM EST..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS LEVY COUNTY BETWEEN OTTER CREEK AND MONTBROOK AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WEST PART OF MARION COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 20 TO 30 MINUTES. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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.
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 25, 3:15 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-252115- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 315 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE NORTH FLORIDA PENINSULA AND PART OF THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PENINSULA UNTIL 9PM EST... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN AFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE NORTH PENINSULA AREA AND PART OF THE CENTRAL PENINSULA AREA. THIS WATCH INCLUDES LAKE COUNTY. AT 310 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING ACROSS NORTH FLORIDA FROM NEAR GAINESVILLE...TO LAKE CITY...EXTENDING NORTH INTO SOUTHERN GEORGIA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INTENSIFYING AND ADVANCING EAST. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FROM LAKE KISSIMMEE AND LAKE GEORGE...EAST TO THE COAST...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THROUGH 5 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY OVER THE NORTHERN PENINSULA NORTH OF A LINE FROM EDGEWATER ON THE EAST COAST...TO TAVARES AND LEESBURG...TO CRYSTAL RIVER ON THE WEST COAST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO CONTINUE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE REST OF CENTRAL FLORIDA...EVENTUALLY BECOMING SCATTERED. STORMS WILL ALSO INTENSIFY OVER SOUTH FLORIDA AND APPROACH CENTRAL FLORIDA FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 4:21 PM EST, 57 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-252215- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 420 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM EST FOR THE NORTH FLORIDA PENINSULA AND PART OF THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PENINSULA... A TORNADO WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE THE NORTH FLORIDA PENINSULA AND PART OF THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PENINSULA. THIS INCLUDES LAKE COUNTY. AT 415 PM EST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN EXTREME NORTHEAST FLORIDA IN THE COUNTIES OF BAKER...DUVAL...AND NASSAU COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE FROM CROSS CITY...TO 15 MILES NORTH OF GAINESVILLE...TO NEAR JACKSONVILLE. MANY OF THESE STORMS WERE INTENSIFYING AS THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA...SHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE AREA INCLUDING THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO QUITE STRONG FROM ARCADIA TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THROUGH 6PM...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY IN STRENGTH OVER THE NORTH PART OF THE PENINSULA...MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM CRYSTAL RIVER...TO OCALA...TO FLAGLER BEAqCH. ALSO THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN NUMBER AND INTENSITY OVER SOUTH FLORIDA AND MOVE TOWARDS CENTRAL FLORIDA FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 5:08 PM EST, 10 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-252315- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 506 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR LAKE COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LAKE COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING. AT 545 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR CROSS CITY TO GAINESVILLE TO AROUND JACKSONVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN MARION COUNTY AFTER 6 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM LAKE OKEECHOBEE TO ARCADIA. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 10 MPH. DURING THE REST OF THIS EVENINjG...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN STENGTH OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA DURING THE EVENING. PERSONS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WATCHES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 5:13 PM EST, 5 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-252315- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 506 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR LAKE COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LAKE COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING. AT 455 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR CROSS CITY TO GAINESVILLE TO AROUND JACKSONVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN MARION COUNTY AFTER 6 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM LAKE OKEECHOBEE TO ARCADIA. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 10 MPH. DURING THE REST OF THIS EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN STENGTH OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA DURING THE EVENING. PERSONS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WATCHES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 62 min |
| Mar 25, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Marion | 60 min |
| Mar 25, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Palm Beach | 65 min |
| Mar 25, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Flagler, Volusia | 60 min |
| Mar 25, 6:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.