Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 4:55 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1995, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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
- 1358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 172058 SVRMIA FLC021-172200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 455 PM EDT WED MAY 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ...NORTHERN COLLIER COUNTY AT 450 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT MIAMI WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR IMMMOKALEE IN NORTHERN COLLIER COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. 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 FROM 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, May 17, 12:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
FLZ063-066>074-171630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1230 PM EST WED MAY 17 1995 ...STRONG LIGHTNING OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST FLORIDA... THE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE SEABREEZE FRONT OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA ARE BEING ACCOMPANINED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. IF YOU ARE IN THE VICINITY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE DIRECTLY UNDER THE STORMS TO BE A TARGET FOR THESE LIGHTNING STRIKES. SINCE IT HAS BEEN A LITTLE WHILE SINCE SOUTH FLORIDA HAS EXPERIENCED INTENSE LIGHTNING... REMEMBER LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE MILES FROM THE ACTUAL THUNDERSTORM. DURING THUNDERSTORMS DO NOT MAKE A TARGET OF YOURSELF...DO NOT USE ELECTRICIAL APPLIANCES... DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE ... TO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE A TARGET BY BEING THE HIGHEST OBJECT NEARBY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.