Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1992, 6:10 PM EDT for Flagler County, Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1992, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Flagler County, FL, Volusia County, FL
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
- 655 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDAB 232209 SVRDAB FLC127-035-232315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 610 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTONA BEACH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...NORTHERN VOLUSIA COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...VOLUSIA COUNTY TO FLAGLER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA ...FLAGLER COUNTY A SHORT LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH THROUGH FLAGLER COUNTY AND MOVING TOWARD VOLUSIA COUNTY. 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. 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, Jun 23, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
FLZ017-011-232000- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 258 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 255 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING JUST WEST OF MASCOTTE AND NEAR THE EAST COAST BETWEEN COCOA BEACH AND CAPE CANAVERAL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF ABOUT 30 MPH...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. DURING THE NEXT HOUR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO BETWEEN MASCOTTE AND TAVARES. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND NEAR THE EAST COAST AND NEAR SHORE COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE CANAVERAL TO SEBASTIAN. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS...AND BOATERS ON THE COASTAL WATERS...SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ELSESWHERE IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ]THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER MUCH OF THE AREA INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
FLZ017-011-232045- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 347 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1992 ...RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 345 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LEESBURG TO CLERMONT...WERE NEAR THE COAST BETWEEN CAPE CANAVERAL AND TITUSVILLE...ALSO BETWWEN MELBOURNE AND SEBASTIAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DURING THE NEXT HOUR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FROM CLERMONT TO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE METRO ORLANDO AREA...ALSO NEAR THE EAST COAST FROM TITUSVILLE TO SEBASTIAN. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...WIND GUSTS OF NEAR 40 MPH...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL NEWS MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIOh FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
FLZ009-0012-232345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 445 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA... ...THIS STATEMENT IS IN EFFECT FOR MARION COUNTY...FLAGLER COUNTY... VOLUSIA COUNTY...AND THE COASTAL WATERS OF FLAGLER COUNTY AND VOLUSIA COUNTY... WEATHER CONDITIONS REMAIN HIGHLY FAVORABLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. AT 440 PM EDT...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING NEAR OCALA AND OVER SOUTHERN VOLUSIA COUNTY AROUND OAK HILL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AND BRING VERY HEAVY RAIN...LOCALLY STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. FLORIDA LEADS THE NATION IN LIGHTNING FAcTALITIES...SO WITH THE APPROACH OF THREATENING WEATHER...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AND BE PREPARED FOR ROUGH SEAS IN THE VICINITY OF THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-232200- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 451 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1992 ...SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FROM COCOA BEACH TO MELBOURNE BEACH UNTIL 545 PM... ...SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FROM TITUSVILLE TO MOSQUITO LAGOON WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM... A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED OFFSHORE OF PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE AROUND 435 THIS AFTERNOON AND WAS ASSCIATED WITH AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OFFSHORE FROM COCOA BEACH TO MELBOURNE. WATERSPOUTS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS IN THE NEXT HOUR. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OFFSHORE OF NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY HAVE WEAKENED A LITTLE IN THE LAST HALF HOUR BUT WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING OFFSHORE OF MOSQUITO LAGOON FOR THE NEXT HALF HOUR. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM SCOTTSMOOR TO OVIEDO...LAKE MARY...FERNDALE AND CLERMONT. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO BETWEEN ST CLOUD AND COCOA...AND AROUND VERO BEACH. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. RES
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:10 PM EDT, 1 hour before
FLZ009-012-232345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 500 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA... ...THIS STATEMENT IS IN EFFECT FOR MARION COUNTY...FLAGLER COUNTY... VOLUSIA COUNTY...AND THE COASTAL WATERS OF FLAGLER COUNTY AND VOLUSIA COUNTY... WEATHER CONDITIONS REMAIN HIGHLY FAVORABLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. AT 455 PM EDT...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING NEAR OCALA AND OVER SOUTHERN VOLUSIA COUNTY AROUND OAK HILL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AND BRING VERY HEAVY RAIN...LOCALLY STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. FLORIDA LEADS THE NATION IN LIGHTNING FATALITIES...SO WITH THE APPROACH OF THREATENING WEATHER...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AND BE PREPARED FOR ROUGH SEAS IN THE VICINITY OF THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:41 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-232245- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 540 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1992 ...SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FROM COCOA BEACH TO MELBOURNE BEACH WILL EXPIRE AT 545 PM... AT 540 PM THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF BREVARD COUNTY HAD WEAKENED AND WERE PRODUCING ONLY HEAVY RAIN. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM BAREFOOT BAY TO SEBASTIAN AND FELLSMERE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM GRANT TO VERO BEACH OVER THE NEXT HOUR WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM DAYTONA BEACH TO TITUSVILLE TO DELAND AND LAKE MONROE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO FROM SOUTH OF CLERMONT TO DISNEY TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...AND WEST OF SHARPES. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. RES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Palm Beach | 37 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.