Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 5:07 PM EDT for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 68 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
- May 28, 1996, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 893 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 May 28, 1:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 100 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 ACTIVITY MOVING INTO COUNTY WARNING AREA INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DO SO AS MIDDAY CAPE SOUNDING MOISTENED FROM MORNING SOUNDING...REMAINS MODERATELY UNSTABLE...AND INTERACTIONS FROM STORMS OVER NORTH FL ALREADY COMING INTO THE PICTURE. IT LOOKS TO BE A BUSY AFTERNOON FOR THE EAST COAST COUNTIES. THIS EVENING...SKIES WILL CLEAR AFTER SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISH EAST COAST/COASTAL WATERS. PATCHES OF FOG WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE WITH LIGHT WINDS AND ABUNDANT GROUND MOISTURE. THE SURFACE-925 MB TROUGH IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS THE E-W LOW-MID LEVEL RIDGE REMAINS ANCHORED TO OUR SOUTH. THE ETA SHOWS DEEPER MOISTURE THAN THE THE NGM AND FOLLOWING NUMEROUS SHOWERS/STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND GROUND MOISTURE AVAILABLE TO BE TRANSPORTED UPWARD...IS PREFERRED SOLUTION. MODERATELY MOIST/UNSTABLE AIRMASS...DAYT.IME HEATING...AND HEIGHT FALLS ALOFT LATE IN THE DAY WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS/STORMS WEDNESDAY...WITH MOVEMENT AGAIN TOWARDS THE EAST COAST OF FL. PETERSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 25 min |
| May 28, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 52 min |
| May 28, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 49 min |
| May 28, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 68 min |
| May 28, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.