Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1992, 1:09 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1992, 1:09 PM EDT (17:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1992, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1757 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLB 301710 SVRMLB FLC009-301815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 109 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...SOUTH AND CENTRAL BREVARD COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...COCOA BEACH TO SEBASTIAN INLET AT 108 PM WINDS GUSTED TO OVER 55 MPH AT THE WEATHER SEVICE OFFICE IN MELBOURNE. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THESE WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTRHERN BREVARD COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COADSTAL WATERS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. BOATERS AND MARINERS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY IF POSSIBLE.
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 30, 12:33 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-301730- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1232 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM LEESBURG TO WINTERGARDEN... AT 1230 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS FROM NEAR LEESBURG TO LAKE APOPKA TO WINTERGARDEN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY AND THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ORANGE COUNTY THROUGH 2 PM. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS MAY OCCURR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM GAINESVILLE TO PALATKA AND CAPE CANAVERAL. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO FROM LAKE KISSIMMEE TO KENANSVILLE. ALL THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. RES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.