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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Melbourne, FL

June 3, 1999Lake County, Florida

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 8:55 PM EDTHail 0.75Astatula, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 1999-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 92 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 1999-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -143 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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In the hours before

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBLake45 min
Jun 4, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBSeminole, Volusia44 min
Jun 4, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOrange44 min
Jun 4, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola44 min
Jun 4, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBLake48 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.