Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1992, 2:02 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1992, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1992, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 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, 6.0 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 301805 SVRMLB FLC009-301900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 202 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...BREVARD COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...CAPE CANAVERAL TO MELBOURNE BEACH AT 200 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM WEST OF COCOA SOUTH TO NEAR MELBOURNE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS BREVARD COUNTY FROM CAPE CANAVERAL TO MELBOURNE DURING THE NEXT HOUR AND THEN ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS. 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. RES
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, 1 hour 29 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
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 1:32 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
FLZ012-301930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 130 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF VOLUSIA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE SOUTHWEST PART OF VOLUSIA COUNTY...STRETCHING FROM OSTEEN NORTHWEST TO THE ST JOHNS RIVER WEST OF DELAND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS WITHIN THE HOUR AND BOATERS ON THE INLAND WATERWAYS AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS SHOULMD BE ALERT FOR HIGH WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 66 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.