Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1993, 2:53 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1993, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1993, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collier County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
FLZ022-021915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 108 PM EDT WED JUN 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER DADE COUNTY... AT 1:05 PM...THE MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...INCREASING RAPIDLY OVER DADE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM DADELAND TO HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE AND WEST TO ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF HOMESTEAD. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MILE:S AN HOUR. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN DADE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
FLZ022-021915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 108 PM EDT WED JUN 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER DADE COUNTY... AT 1:05 PM...THE MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...INCREASING RAPIDLY OVER DADE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM DADELAND TO HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE AND WEST TO ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF HOMESTEAD. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN DADE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:03 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
FLZ022-022000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 203 PM EDT WED JUN 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER DADE COUNTY... AT 1:55 PM...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER DADE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SWEETWATER SOUTH ALONG THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE EXTENSION TO NEAR MILLER DRIVE. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BETWEEN GOULDS AND LEISURE CITY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EVERGLADES FROM 10 MILES WEST OF HOMESTEAD TO THE DADE AND MONROE COUNTY LINE. AT 1:40 PM THERE WAS A REPORT OF PEA SIZED HAIL AND ESTIMATED GUSTS TO N R50 MILES AN HOUR ON 50TH STREET AND 114TH AVE. MOVEMENT WASA TOWARDS THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTST IN DADE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO VISIBILITIES REDUCED TO LESS THAN 1/4 MILE LOCAL VISIBILITIES AND LOCAL STREET PONDING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL. &
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:03 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
FLZ022-022000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 203 PM EDT WED JUN 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER DADE COUNTY... AT 1:55 PM...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER DADE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SWEETWATER SOUTH ALONG THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE EXTENSION TO NEAR MILLER DRIVE. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS BETWEEN GOULDS AND LEISURE CITY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EVERGLADES FROM 10 MILES WEST OF HOMESTEAD TO THE DADE AND MONROE COUNTY LINE. AT 1:40 PM THERE WAS A REPORT OF PEA SIZED HAIL AND ESTIMATED GUSTS TO N R50 MILES AN HOUR ON 50TH STREET AND 114TH AVE. MOVEMENT WASA TOWARDS THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTST IN DADE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO VISIBILITIES REDUCED TO LESS THAN 1/4 MILE LOCAL VISIBILITIES AND LOCAL STREET PONDING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 45 min |
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.