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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Miami, FL

June 13, 1995Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1995, 4:32 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1995, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Key West, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1605 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, Key West, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 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
1605 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMIA 132034 RRA
SVRMIA
FLC011-025-132130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
432 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN DADE COUNTY
 
AT 430 PM...RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSIFYING LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD BECOME SEVERE BY 445 PM. THIS LINE
WILL SWEEP THROUGH SOUTHEAST BROWARD AND NORTHEAST DADE COUNTY
THROUGH 530 PM. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN REPORT THE
SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

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

Local storm report, Jun 13, 12:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
1230 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 1995

TIME(EDT)      LOCATION         EVENT/REMARKS

1135 AM        FOWLEY ROCKS     MAX WIND GUSTS
06/13/95       C-MAN STATION    TO 55 KTS FROM THE
               4 MI EAST OF     WEST.
               THE MOUTH OF
               BISCAYNE BAY
Local storm report, Jun 13, 12:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
1230 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 1995

TIME(EDT)      LOCATION         EVENT/REMARKS

1135 AM        FOWLEY ROCKS     MAX WIND GUSTS
06/13/95       C-MAN STATION    TO 55 KTS FROM THE
               4 MI EAST OF     WEST.
               THE MOUTH OF
               BISCAYNE BAY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 11:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade47 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.