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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Melbourne, FL

July 31, 1993Lake County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1993, 7:28 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 1993, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1993, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Lake County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1993-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3672 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1993-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jul 31, 5:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
FLZ011-312205-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
504 PM EDT SAT JUL 31 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN ORLANDO AREA...

AT 500 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE ORLANDO AREA BETWEEN
DOWNTOWN AND THE DISNEY WORLD AREA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WERE SCATTERED FROM CRISTMAS TO HOLOPAW AND CONTINUED TO
LAKE KISSIMMEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT.

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. BECAUSE OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE
POSSIBLE. IF DRIVING..USE EXTRA CAUTION FOR PONDING OF WATER
ON ROADS AND POOR VISIBILITIES.

ELSEWHERE IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE
NEAR SCOTTSMOOR AND DELAND. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.

PAF
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
FLZ011-312205-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
504 PM EDT SAT JUL 31 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN ORLANDO AREA...

AT 500 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE ORLANDO AREA BETWEEN
DOWNTOWN AND THE DISNEY WORLD AREA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WERE SCATTERED FROM CRISTMAS TO HOLOPAW AND CONTINUED TO
LAKE KISSIMMEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT.

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. BECAUSE OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE
POSSIBLE. IF DRIVING..USE EXTRA CAUTION FOR PONDING OF WATER
ON ROADS AND POOR VISIBILITIES.

ELSEWHERE IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE
NEAR SCOTTSMOOR AND DELAND. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.

PAF
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
FLZ011-312235-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
533 PM EDT SAT JUL 31 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE ORLANDO AREA...

AT 530 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE CLUSTER
OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN DOWNTOWN ORLANDO AND THE
ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. BETWEEN 520 AND 530 PM...THE
ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED WIND GUSTS OF 53 MPH AND
1/4 INCH HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO
THE SOUTHEAST.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A
STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED
VISIBILITIES DURING HEAVY RAIN. SOME STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.

PAF
&
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
FLZ011-312235-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
533 PM EDT SAT JUL 31 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE ORLANDO AREA...

AT 530 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE CLUSTER
OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN DOWNTOWN ORLANDO AND THE
ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. BETWEEN 520 AND 530 PM...THE
ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED WIND GUSTS OF 53 MPH AND
1/4 INCH HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMSL WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO
THE SOUTHEAST.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A
STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED
VISIBILITIES DURING HEAVY RAIN. SOME STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.

PAF
&
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:09 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBIndian River44 min
Jul 31, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard60 min
Jul 31, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.