Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1993, 2:06 PM EDT for Flagler County, Florida. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 1993, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1993, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Flagler County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 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
- 1278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 23, 1:30 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 23, 2:01 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
FLZ011-231900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 201 PM EDT MON AUG 23 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 200 PM...NAITONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SANFORD NORTH TO PALATKA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN SANFORD AND OCALA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO LAKE..SEMINOLE..AND ORANGE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR AND EXTEND FROM BETWEEN LADY LAKE AND LEESBURG TO BETWEEN SANFORD AND ORLANDO. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS THE AREA. THEY CAN PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE ATLANTIC MORE THAN 30 MILES OFFSHORE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL TO MELBOURNE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. PAF
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 2:01 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
FLZ011-231900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 201 PM EDT MON AUG 23 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 200 PM...NAITONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SANFORD NORTH TO PALATKA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN SANFORD AND OCALA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO LAKE..SEMINOLE..AND ORANGE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR AND EXTEND FROM BETWEEN LADY LAKE AND LEESBURG TO BETWEEN SANFORD AND ORLANDO. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS THE AREA. THEY CAN PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE ATLANTIC MORE THAN 30 MILES OFFSHORE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL TO MELBOURNE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. PAF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Palm Beach | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Marion | 33 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.