Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1992, 6:40 PM EDT for Flagler County, Florida. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1992, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1992, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Flagler County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDAB 282239 SVRDAB FLC035-282345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 640 PM EDT THU MAY 28 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTONA BEACH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA ...FLAGLER COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO THE NORTH PART OF FLAGLER COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLAGLER BEACH. THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE COUNTY AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. 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 S!TORM HAS PASSED. 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, May 28, 1:34 PM EDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
FLZ009-012-281830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 132 PM EDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL FLORIDA FROM 130 PM UNTIL 700 PM EDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES MARION..FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AR!EA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 28, 3:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
FLZ012-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 350 PM EDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL FLORIDA UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING ALONG THE EAST COAST THROUGH FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES CONTINUE TO PUSH NORTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA AT 20 MPH AND ARE MOVING OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL FOR THE NEXT HOUR AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. A WIND GUST TO ABOUT 30 MPH WAS RECORDED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT THE REGIONAL AIRPORT IN DAYTONA BEACH AS THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH. SEVERAL LOCATIONS AROUND DAYTONA BEACH AND PORT ORANGE HAVE REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS CAUSING SOME STREET FLOODING...SO MOTORISTS SHOULD EX ERCISE CAUTION THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
FLZ006>017-020-282230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 535 PM EDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG THE FLORIDA EAST COAST NEAR TITUSVILLE ...REACHING INLAND TO ORLANDO AND LEESBURG AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WERE FARTHER NORTH ALONG THE COAST AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS IN THE ST AUGUSTINE AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INLAND BETWEEN GAINESVILLE AND LAKE CITY AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST ALONG THE COAST AT 15 MPH.
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.