Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT for Hendry County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1992, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hendry County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 3613 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMIA 070020 COR SVRMIA FLC051-070115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 815 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH FLORIDA ...NORTHERN HENDRY COUNTY ...SOUTHERN GLADES COUNTY AT 810 PM EDT WEATHER SPOTTERS NEAR LA BELLE IN EXTREME NORTHERN HENDRY COUNTY SIGHTED SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS AND OBSERVED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN GLADES AND NORTHERN HENDRY COUNTIES IS DRIFTING TO THE EAST AND MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALSO LIKELY IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONESOR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A SAFE REFUGE FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN ASK A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
FLZ022-062115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 409 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1992 AT 405 PM EDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST DADE COUNTY NEAR HOMESTEAD AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 14 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING NUMEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...SMALL HAIL AND VERY GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST DADE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND MOVE INSIDE IF IT APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
FLZ015>023-062140-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
440 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1992
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER DADE COUNTY...
AT 426 PM MIAMI RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT DADE COUNTY. MOTORISTS
...RESIDENTS ... AND OTHER CONCERNED INTERESTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS
AS THEY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND SHARPLY REDUCE VISIBILITIES IN PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY
RAINS...PONDING OF WATER ON LOW LYING POOR DRAINAGE ROADWAYS IS ALSO A CONCERN
FOR AFTERNOON RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC.
ELSEWHERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDED FROM THE GULF COAST
BETWEEN NAPLES AND CAPE SABLE WEST OVER THE GULF TO THE LOWER FLORIDA KEYS.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
THE MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION TOP WAS 50 THOUSAND FEET ... LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST
DADE COUNTY NEAR HOMESTEAD.Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
FLZ015>023-062346- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 546 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNING FOR DADE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 545PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING OVER MOST OF THE SOUTHERN PENINSULA... AT 531 PM MIAMI RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED TO NUMEOUS CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SOUTHERN PENINSULA SOUTH OF A CALOOSAHATCHEE RIVER/ LAKE WORTH LINE...INCLUDING MUCH OF METROPOLITION DADE COUNTY. MOTORISTS... RESIDENTS...AND OTHER CONCERNED INTERESTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS AS THEY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND SHARPLY REDUCE VISIBILITIES IN PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS...PONDING OF WATER ON LOW LYING POOR DRAINAGE ROADWAYS IS ALSO A CONCERN FOR AFTERNOON RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDED OVER THE GULF WATERS FROM CAPE ROMANO TO JUST N`ORTH OF THE LOWER KEYS. THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION TOP WAS 50 THOUSAND FEET ... LOCATED OVER NORTHERN COLLIER COUNTY JUST EAST OF BONITA SPRINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
FLZ015>023-062345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 645 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE SOUTHERN PENINSULA... AT 634 PM MIAMI RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SOUTHERN PENINSULA SOUTH OF FORT MYERS/JUPITER LINE... THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE EVERGLADES OF WESTERN DADE ...BROWARD...AND EASTERN COLLIER AND MAINLAND MONROE COUNTIES...AND OVER INTERIOR PALM BEACH COUNTY. RESIDENTS...MOTORISTS AND OTHER CONCERNED INTERESTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS AS THEY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...SMALL HAIL...AND SHARPLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS...PONDING OF WATER ON LOW LYING POOR DRAINAGE ROADWAYS IS ALSO A CONCERN FOR MOTORISTS. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED OF THE THUNDERTORMS DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION TOP WAS 60 THOUSAND FEET...LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN COLLIER COUNTY NEAR U.S. ROAD 41...THE TAMIAMI TRAIL.
Local storm report, Jul 6, 7:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
700 PM EDT MON JUL 06 1992
4:37 PM EDT N DADE COUNTY...3NE OPF. DADE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
REPORTED ROOF BLOWN OFF SHED AT 19005 NW 1@9 CT.
N DADE COUNTY...4NE OPF. TELEVISION NEWS REPORTS TREES
BLOWN DOWN NEAR JOE ROBBIE STADIUM.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.