Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Melbourne, FL

Issued

Jun 15, 1996, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)

Expired

Jun 15, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Melbourne, FL

Area

Whole counties

County Seminole County, FL

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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TTAA00 KMLB 152043
SVRMLB
FLC117-152145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
443 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...SEMINOLE COUNTY
 
AT 440 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LONGWOOD THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH AND WILL
AFFECT LONGWOOD/ALTAMONTE SPRINGS AREA THROUGH 530 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF A STRONG BUILDING. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

NWS Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 1:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
152 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996

NOT AN EASY FCST TODAY. FIRST...88D SHOWING STRONG STORMS EXTENDING
FROM TAMPA NE ACROSS MARION COUNTY TO JAX. EXPECT THINGS TO GET
INTERESTING IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE AS E CST C BRZ HAS SET UP
AND COLLISIONS WILL BEGIN IN THE NEXT HOUR. IN ADDITION STORMS OVER
IN WC FLA HAVE BEEN SHOWING STRONG CHARACTERISTICS AND WOULD NOT
SURPRISED TO SEE THEM GO SVR. HOWEVER...BEST CHANCE OF SVR SHOULD BE
IN MLB CWA.

ALL MODELS SHOW/HINT AT SHORT DROPPING S FROM SE USA TO CUT OFF ALOFT
OVER THE STATE/E GOM. OVERALL FLOW OVER THE AREA SHOULD BE DEEP
EASTERLY (ONLY HAVE GRIDDED DATA FROM ETA).  THIS WILL SUPPORT
ACTIVITY COMING OFF THE COAST TONIGHT AND AFFECTING COASTAL COUNTIES.

AS SYSTEM SETTLES OVER THE STATE/E GOM TOMMOROW...ATMOS SHOULD BECOME
QUITE UNSTABLE WITH ABUNDANT LLVL MOISTURE. FLOW SHOULD BE DEEP
EASTERLY SO WOULD EXPECT ACTIVITY WILL BE PREDOMINANTLY OVER
INTIERIOR COUNTIES. ONLY FLY IN OINTMENT IS POSSIBLITIY OF STRONG
STORMS. IF SYSTEM CUTS OFF OVER STATE WINDS FIELDS WILL BE NIL OVER
FA WHICH MEANS A FEW STRONG PULSE STORMS INTERIOR/W CST. IF SYSTEM
CUTS OFF FURTHER WEST WIND FIELDS COULD WIND UP BEING QUITE
IMPRESSIVE AND THE ACTION COULD BE PENINSULA WIDE. IN EITHER CASE WE
WILL SEE STORMS...ESPECIALLY OVER THE INTERIOR TOMMOROW...ALTHOUGH I
DO NOT EXPECT A RAIN OUT ATTM.

A GOOD SUGEESTION FOR POPS WOULD BE FOR TONIGHT WOULD BE 30% COASTAL
COUNTIES/EXCLUDING VOLUSIA (20%). FOR TOMMOROW 30% BREVARD (COASTAL
COUNTIES) SOUTH AND 50/60% REMAINDER OF FA.

HODANISH

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.