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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 23, 1993Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1993, 3:14 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 23, 1993, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1993, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Palm Beach County, FL

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, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 1:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 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, 1 hour 13 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, 3:14 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
FLZ011-017-232010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
314 PM EDT MON AUG 23 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS EAST CENTRAL
FLORIDA...

AT 310 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM LADY LAKE TO TAVARES AND LAKE MARY.
OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM OVER THE OCALA NATIONAL FOREST
NORTH TO BETWEEN PALATKA AND GAINESVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF LAKE..SEMINOLE..AND ORANGE
COUNTIES..WITH SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM
BETWEEN LADY LAKE AND LEESBURG TO BETWEEN LONGWOOD AND ORLANDO.
SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...WINDS
GUSTING TO 40 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

ELSEWHERE...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM NEW SMYRNA BEACH
TO BITHLO AND JUST WEST OF COCOA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER
THE COASTAL WATERS MORE THAN 20 MILES OFFSHORE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL
TO VERO BEACH.

PAF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBFlagler69 min
Aug 23, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBMarion33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.