Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1993, 5:41 PM EST for Martin County, Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1993, 5:41 PM EST (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1993, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Martin County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPBI 242241 SVRPBI FLC085-111-242345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEST PALM BEACH FL 541 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WEST PALM BEACH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ...NORTHERN MARTIN COUNTY...SOUTHERN ST.LUCIE COUNTY AND THE ADJACANT WATERS OF THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST AT 530 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL ALONG THE MARTIN ST LUCIE COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST TOWARD STUART AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. & NNNN
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, Mar 24, 12:35 PM EST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
FLZ006>017-020-241825- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 1230 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL FLORIDA AND INCLUDES MARION...FLAGLER... AND VOLUSIA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF BOTH FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES... AT 1225 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM JUST WEST OF WALT DISNEY WORLD TO LAKELAND. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED FROM DELAND TO PALATKA. LIGHT RAIN WAS OCCURING ALONG THE FLORIDA EAST COAST AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM DAYTONA BEACH TO MELBOURNE.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 1:04 PM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-241900- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 105 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL FLORIDA UNTIL 6PM... ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 1254PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW STRONG... CONTINUED BETWEEN ST AUGUSTINE AND OCALA....NEAR DAYTONA BEACH...AND OVER SOUTHERN LAKE...WESTERN ORANGE AND WESTERN OSCEOLA COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. BETWEEN 1 AND 2PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE KISSIMMEE AND ORLANDO TO CLERMONT AREAS AND APPROACH NORTHERN LAKE AND SEMINOLE COUNTIES. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON...BUT CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS... AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST OVER MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA AND OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BOATERS IN PARTICULAR SHOULD BE ALER$T FOR THE APPROACH OF THREATENING WEATHER FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND BE READY TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR. BCH
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 1:33 PM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes before
FLZ006>017-020-241925- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 130 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL FLORIDA AND INCLUDES MARION...FLAGLER... AND VOLUSIA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF BOTH FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES... AT 125 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A NARROW BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT EXTENDED FROM OCALA TO LAKE GEORGE TO JUST OFFSHORE ST AUGUSTINE. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE ALSO OCCURRING BETWEEN LEESBURG AND LAKE WALES...ALL WITHIN AN AREA OF GENERALLY LIGHT RAIN THAT EXTENDED EASTWARD TO THE FLORIDA EAST COAST AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM MELBOURNE TO JACKSONVILLE BEACH. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 2:06 PM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
FLZ017-011-016-012-009-242000- SPECIAL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 204 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA UNTIL 6 PM... AT 200 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN OCALA AND FLAGLER BEACH AND BETWEEN ORLANDO AND KISSIMMEE. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM...THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE COASTAL AREAS FROM ST AUGUSTINE TO VERO BEACH AND CONTINUE AFFECTING THE COASTAL AREAS THROUGH 4 PM. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STROKES. BOATERS IN PARTICULAR SHOULD BE ALERT AS THESE STORMS MOVE NEAR THE COAST AND OFFSHORE AND BE READY TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 3:32 PM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
FLZ006>017-020-242125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 330 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL FLORIDA AND INCLUDES MARION...FLAGLER... AND VOLUSIA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF BOTH FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES... AT 325 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY NOW OUT OVER THE ATLANTIC...FROM JUST OFFSHORE EDGEWATER TO DAYTONA BEACH TO 40 MILES OFFSHORE MATANZAS. A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WAS OCCURRING BETWEEN MELBOURNE AND VERO BEACH AND EXTENDED INLAND TO KENANSVILLE. 4 PATCHES OF RAIN...MOST OF IT LIGHT...LINGERED OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE FLORIDA PENINSULA FROM PALATKA TO ASTOR PARK TO LAKE KISSIMMEE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 4:47 PM EST, 54 minutes before
FLZ006>017-020-242225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL 430 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR MARION... FLAGLER...VOLUSIA...AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF BOTH FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES... AT 425 PM EST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LAKE OKEECHOBEE TO 20 MILES OFFSHORE MELBOURNE THEN CONTINUED NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE OPEN WATERS OF THE ATLANTIC...AT LEAST 60 MILES OFFSHORE THE FLORIDA EAST COAST BETWEEN DAYTONA BEACH AND JACKSONVILLE BEACH. PATCHY LIGHT RAIN LINGERED OVER THE FLORIDA PENINSULA...MAINLY BETWEEN CROSS CITY AND LEESBURG...AND FROM DELAND TO NEW SMYRNA BEACH NORTHWARD TO ST AUGUSTINE AND INCLUDING THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Osceola | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.