Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1996, 8:20 PM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1996, 8:20 PM EST (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1996, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 574 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS01 KMLB 310121 RRA SVRMLB FLC127-FLZ501-310215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 820 PM EST SAT MAR 30 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...VOLUSIA COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...ORMOND BEACH TO MOSQUITO LAGOON AT 815 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN MELBOURNE SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF DELAND AND DELTONA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL REACH THE COAST FROM DAYTONA SOUTH TO EDGEWATER AND OAK HILL BY 845 PM. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD TAKE COVER FROM THE STORM. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CROSS THE INTRACOASTAL WATERS AND INTO THE ATLANTIC...THEY WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS, ROUGH SEAS, HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. TRY TO AVOID THESE STORMS IF POSSIBLE. IF YOU GET CAUGHT...MAKE SURE ALL SAFETY GEAR IS AVAILABLE AND THAT LIFE JACKETS ARE BEING WORN BY YOU AND YOUR CREW.
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 Mar 30, 2:47 PM EST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:47 PM EST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 230 PM EST SAT MAR 30 1996 APPROACHING SHORT WAVE/UVV CENTER WILL CONTINUE TO ENHANCE TRW COVERAGE AND INTENSITY THROUGH THE EVENING. FOCUS OF STRONGEST STORMS AT THIS TIME IS ALONG BOUNDARY FROM TTS TO TBW AREA. THIS BOUNDARY WILL LIFT NORTHWARD THIS EVENING AND WILL FOCUS RAIN/TRW CONCENTRATION ACROSS NORTHERN THIRD OF STATE...HOWEVER TRW WILL ALSO OCCUR FARTHER SOUTH NEAR OUTFLOW AND SEA BREEZE BOUNDARIES INTO THE EVENING. FEW SEVERE STORMS LIKELY. AS SHORTWAVE PROGRESSES NE OF REGION BY SUNDAY MORNING...DEEP MOISTURE WILL RAPIDLY DECREASE AND WINDS WILL BECOME MORE WESTERLY...LEAVING BEST CHANCES FOR CONVECTION ACROSS SOUTHERNMOST ZONES. ALTHOUGH TRW COVERAGE WILL BE MUCH LESS SUNDAY...CONTINUATION OF COLD TEMPS ALOFT AND APPROACHING JET MAX MAY ALLOW THE STORMS WHICH DO DEVELOP TO BECOME STRONG. MULTILAYERED CLOUDS WILL HOLD DAYTIME HIGHS DOWN A BIT SUNDAY. THANKS FORF COORDINATION TBW/JAX. SPRATT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 7:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange, Seminole | 62 min |
| Mar 30, 7:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Volusia | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 8:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 8:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 3:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 34 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.