Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1992, 6:12 PM EDT for Flagler County, Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1992, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1992, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Flagler County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 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 272212 SVRDAB FLC127-035-272315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 612 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTONA BEACH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...NORTHERN VOLUSIA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA ...SOUTHERN FLAGLER COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF VOLUSIA AND AND SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF FLAGLER COUNTY... AT 607 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... LARGE HAIL...AND NUMEROUS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES MOVING EAST ALONG THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF VOLUSIA COUNTY...VERY NEAR THE EAST SHORES OF LAKE GEORGE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH ON A COURSE THAT WILL RAPIDLY CARRY IT ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF FLAGLER COUNTY AS WELL. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, May 27, 2:26 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
FLZ012-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 227 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING FLAGLER COUNTY... AT 220 PM EDT A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST OF BUNNELL ON THE FLAGLER COUNTY LINE. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE POSSIBLE HAIL..HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN FLAGLER COUN0TY SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FURTHER STATEMENTS REGARDING THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, May 27, 3:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
FLZ017-011-272045- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 353 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 350 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM BITHLO TO JUST EAST OF ST CLOUD AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM MATANZAS INLET TO FLAGLER BEACH....AND NEAR NEW SMYRNA BEACH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL. DURING THE NEXT HOUR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO BREVARD COUNTY AND EXTEND FROM TITUSVILLE TO COCOA. STRONG THUNDER- STORMS WILL ALSO MOVE INTO THE ORLANDO/KISSIMMEE AREA AND FROM PALATKA TO THE EAST COAST AND COASTAL WATER FROM MATANZAS TO NEW SMYRNA BEACH. RESIDENTS OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN TRAVELLING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PAF
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
FLZ006>017-020-272300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 450 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR MARION...FLAGLER...AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES... AT 445 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM FLAGLER COUNTY INLAND TO MARION COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...ON A COURSE THAT WILL CARRY THE STORMS TO THE COASTAL WATERS OF FLAGLER COUNTY AND INTO THE EAST SECTIONS OF MARION AND NORTHWEST PORTION OF VOLUSIA COUNTY DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. BOATERS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS AND INLAND WATERWAYS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.