Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 20, 1995, 3:23 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1995, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1995, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMIA 202024 RRA SVRMIA FLC025-202115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 323 PM EST MON FEB 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ...EASTERN DADE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 320 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH WINDS BETWEEN 50 AND 60 MPH APPROACHING HIALEAH AND OPALOCKA AREAS. DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FR"OM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.
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, Feb 20, 12:39 PM EST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
FLZ072-071-074-073-069-070-063-066-068-067-201845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1239 PM EST MON FEB 20 1995 AT 1230 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUPITER TO NAPLES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST END ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF NAPLES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN WESTERN COLLIER AND HENDRY COUNTIES CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING BETWEEN 1 PM AND 3 PM. IN ADDITION...SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOPE OVER OTHER PARTS OF SOUTH FLORIDA IN THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 12:40 PM EST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
FLZ072-071-074-073-069-070-063-066-068-067-201845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1239 PM EST MON FEB 20 1995 AT 1230 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUPITER TO NAPLES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST END ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF NAPLES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN WESTERN COLLIER AND HENDRY COUNTIES CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY W:INDS...POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING BETWEEN 1 PM AND 3 PM. IN ADDITION...SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOPE OVER OTHER PARTS OF SOUTH FLORIDA IN THE NEXT HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 12:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 67 min |
| Feb 20, 2:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Collier | 63 min |
| Feb 20, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.