Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1999, 8:54 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1999, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1999, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Astatula, FL |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -121 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 3, 8:15 PM EDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 8:15 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
558 PM EDT THU JUN 03 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0535 PM KISSIMMEE FL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 OSCEOLA GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED BY
LOCAL TELEVISION STATION.Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
558 PM EDT THU JUN 03 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0535 PM KISSIMMEE FL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 OSCEOLA GOLF BALL HAIL REPORTED BY
LOCAL TELEVISION STATION.Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
720 PM EDT THU JUN 03 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM 5 S BAY LAKE FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 LAKE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL.
0656 PM GROVELAND KLINGER ARPT FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 LAKE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL.Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
720 PM EDT THU JUN 03 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM 5 S BAY LAKE FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 LAKE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL.
0656 PM GROVELAND KLINGER ARPT FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 LAKE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole, Volusia | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
Sources
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.