Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1992, 4:31 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1992, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1992, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 KMLB 042033 SVRMLB FLC009-042115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 431 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...BREVARD COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...MOSQUITO LAGOON TO SEBASTIAN INLET AT 430 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF TITUSVILLE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST INLAND AND COULD BECOME SEVERE. 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.
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, Aug 4, 11:15 AM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
FLZ009-041715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 1115 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR MARION COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE WEST PART OF MARION COUNTY AND WERE BETWEEN DUNNELLON AND OCALA. THESE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND THEY PUSH EASTWARD THROUGH THE COUNTY DURING THE LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. THE SAFEST PLACE DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION DURING THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAY.
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
FLZ012-042015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 220 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT CONCERNS VOLUSIA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE SEA BREEZE LINE JUST INLAND FROM THE COAST AROUND THE DAYTONA BEACH AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS THIS AFTERNOON AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH THE AREA. WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE SAFEST PLACE DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE CAUTION THIS AFTERNOON AS| THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
FLZ012-042000- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 300 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT CONCERNS VOLUSIA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG THE FLORIDA EAST COAST IN THE DAYTONA BEACH AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS THIS AFTERNOON AS THEY MOVE EAST THROUGH THE AREA AND OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. WIND GUSTS TO 31 MPH HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH OVER THREE- QUARTERS /.82/ OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR. THE SAFEST PLACE DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE CAUTION THIS AFTERNOON AS THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS. SOME FLODDING OF LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS ON THE INLAND WATERWAYS AND ON THE COASTAL WATERS OFFSHORE DAYTONA BEACH SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS.
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:42 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-042045- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 340 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORM ONCE AGAIN IN THE AFTERNOON HEAT... AT 335 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FROM VERO BEACH TO YEEHAW JUNCTION...ALONG I-4 THROUGH ORANGE COUNTY...AND NEAR DAYTONA BEACH. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM GAINESVILLE AND ST AUGUSTINE...TO LAKE GEORGE AND DELAND...TO WINTER GARDEN AND SANFORD...TO LAKE KISSIMMEE. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY MOVING EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THROUGH 5PM EDT...SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE PASSING THROUGH THE ORLANDO METRO AREA. MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH EXTRA CAUTION. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME STRONG OVER PARTS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY...NEAR KISSIMMEE...AND AROUND LONGWOOD AND OVIEDO. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE FOR SAFE SHELTER. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...DO NOT STAND UNDER A TALL ISOLATED TREE. MARINE INTERESTS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FROM CAPE CANAVERAL NORTH TO ST AUGUSTINE...AND FROM SEBASTIAN INLET RSOUTH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Palm Beach | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.