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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 26, 1996Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1996, 3:18 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 42 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: Jun 26, 1996, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 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 19:21 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMLB 261918
SVRMLB
FLC009-262000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
318 PM EDT WED JUN 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY
 
 
 
 
AT 315 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING IN
NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY FROM SCOTTSMOOR TO MIMS. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS
MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES FROM MIMS TO
TITUSVILLE THROUGH 330 PM. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DAMAGING WINDS.
 
 
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.

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 26, 2:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
216 PM EDT WED JUN 26 1996

QUITE A FEW STORMS OVER THE C PART OF THE CWA ATTM. STORMS MOVING SE
UNDER WK NW FLOW.

MAIN FEATURE OF INTEREST IS BOTH NGM AND ETA SHOW FROPA THROUGH MOST
OF CWA TOMMOROW MORNING. SEE NO REASON TO BELEIVE THAT THIS WILL NOT
OCCUR GIVEN WINDS OVER GA ALREADY NE. TEMPS TO COME DOWN 10 DEGREES
WITH COOLER FLOW OFF OCEAN...ESPECIALLY OVER N AND C SECTIONS OF FA.
WITH FRONT PUSHING SOUTH...BEST POPS FROM MCO TO MLB SOUTH. WOULD NOT
BE SURPRISED TO SEE NO RAIN AT ALL IN N SECTIONS OF CWA GIVEN DECENT
NE FLOW OFF OCEAN (C BRZ WILL RACE INLAND AND STABLE AIR WILL MOVE IN
OFF ATL).

HODANISH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 10:49 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-501-261530-

EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1100 AM EDT WED JUN 26 1996

...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...A
FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE...

THE ATMOSPHERE OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE AS LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS VERY HIGH OVER THE REGION. THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE ALREADY FORMED IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA LATE THIS MORNING AND ARE
EXPECTED TO SLOWLY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST ACROSS EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE
NUMEROUS WITH A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE.

THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL STRONG WINDS AND
HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. ONCE AGAIN
ANOTHER FLORIDIAN WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING YESTERDAY. IF THUNDERSTORMS
APPROACH...SEEK SHELTER IN A BUILDING OR IN AN AUTOMOBILE.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND SKYWARN PERSONNEL ARE
REQUESTED TO RELAY REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MELBOURNE.

MARINE OUTLOOK...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVEjR THE
ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS WITH MOST OF THE STORMS NORTH OF CAPE
CANAVERAL. OTHER SCATTERED STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE
INTRACOASTAL WATERS PRIMARILY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING
HOURS.

HODANISH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	65 min
Jun 26, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Seminole	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996 Every 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.