Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1995, 6:03 PM EDT for Orange County, Seminole County, Florida. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1995, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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.
NWS Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 3:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 234 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995 CONVECTIVE COVERAGE INCREASING OVER AND JUST WEST OF WESTERN ZONES AND SPREADING EAST AT THIS TIME. TRW SHOULD EFFECT MUCH OF INLAND AREAS REMAINDER OF AFTERNOON...AND REACH EAST COAST THIS EVENING. COLLISION BETWEEN THIS CONVECTION AND EAST COAST BREEZE LIKELY TO RESULT IN A FEW STRONG STORMS. WILL CONTINUE WITH FORECAST OF SCATTERED EVENING STORMS INLAND AND GOOD CHANCE EAST COAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT. AXIS OF DEEP MOISTURE HAS FOUND A HOME ACROSS CENTRAL PENINSULA AND SHOULD REMAIN ANCHORED HERE THROUGHOUT FORECAST PERIOD. WEAK SHORT WAVE PROGGED TO REACH ATLANTIC THIS EVENING. THIS TROUGH...COMBINED WITH MESO BOUNDARIES...SHOULD PROVIDE ENOUGH LIFT FOR GOOD COVERAGE TRW INTERIOR EARLY...SPREADING TO COAST DURING THE EVENING. SYNOPTIC SCALE WESTERLY FLOW MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO INHIBIT OR AT LEAST RESTRICT EAST COAST SEA BREEZE TO IMMEDIATE COAST SATURDAY...AND LIKELY INHIBIT SUNDAY. NGM/ETA MOVE UNSEASONABLY DEEP MID LEVEL TROUGH/PVA LOBE ACROSS NORTHERN/CENTRAL PENINSULA LATE SATURDAY/EARLY SUNDAY. SW 850 JET PROGGED TO INCREASE TO 20 TO 25 KNOTS OVER AREA BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SHOULD FURTHER ENHANCE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. AVN IS WEAKER AND SLOWER WITH MID LEVEL FEATURE. WILL USE GOOD CHANCE/LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS DURING SAT/SUN AND SCATTERED POPS AT NIGHT. ALTHOUGH BULK OF EVENING ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO OCCUR EARLY IN THE PERIOD...CAN NOT RULE OUT SOME TRW OVERNIGHT SAT AND SUN MORNING WITH APPROACH OF STRONG TROUGH. FEW STRONG/SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE SAT NEAR BOUNDARY COLLISIONS BUT WILL NOT MENTION UNTIL EFFECTS AND TIMING OF TROUGH BECOME MORE CERTAIN. WILL FOLLOW PERS<ISTENCE ON TEMPS. TBW...APPRECIATE YOUR VIVID INSIGHT TO THE FORECAST. @1...VOLUSIA BREVARD INDIAN RIVER ST LUCIE MARTIN @2...LAKE SEMINOLE ORANGE OSCEOLA OKEECHOBEE MCO 73/91/73/91 4645 DAB 71/92/72/91 5535 MLB 73/91/73/90 5535 SPRATT
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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.