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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 22, 1995Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 5:19 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
56 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 21:18 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, 9.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1068 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 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
1068 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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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.

NWS Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
204 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995

THE MODELS CONTINUE FORECASTING THE GRADUAL WEAKENING AND DEPARTURE
OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IN ADDITION TO THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE
WEAK SURFACE LOW FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN TO THE SOUTHWESTERN GULF
OF MEXICO. IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PLACES...A DEEP LAYER RIDGE WILL BUILD
ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST ATLANTIC INTO FL AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE WEEKEND.
THIS WILL ALLOW A GRADUAL DRYING PROCESS TO OCCUR...SO A LITTLE MORE
SUN SHOULD APPEAR THE NEXT FEW DAYS...ALONG WITH SLIGHTLY LESS
COVERAGE OF SHOWERS/STORMS EACH DAY. DEEP LAYER SOUTHWEST FLOW SHOULD
FAVOR LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE EAST COAST DURING THE
AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING...SO I WILL HAVE FORECAST HIGHER POPS SATURDAY
EVENING FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES. AS TEMPERATURES ALOFT GRADUALLY
WARM...SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL FOLLOW SUIT.

@1...LAKE SEMINOLE ORANGE OSCEOLA OKEECHOBEE
@2...VOLUSIA BREVARD INDIAN RIVER
@3...ST LUCIE MARTIN

MCO 71/89 70/91 2524
DAB 70/89 70/92 3534
MLB 72/89 72/92 3534

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.