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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL

February 13, 1995Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 1995, 3:01 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 1995, 3:01 PM EST (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 1995, 4:00 PM EST
In force: 59 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, 8.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1089 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMIA 132001 RRA
SVRMIA
FLC025-FLZ502-132100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
301 PM EST MON FEB 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
 
   ...EASTERN DADE COUNTY
 
  AND FOR BOATERS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM
 
   ...HALLANDALE  TO  KEY LARGO
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED OVER MIAMI SPRINGS AND VIRGINA
GARDENS AT 252 PM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST ABOUT 10 MPH AND WILL BE
MOVING ACROSS MIAMI AND MIAMI BEACH BEFORE 4 PM.
 
DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OTF 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.
 
 
 
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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 13, 2:44 PM EST, 17 minutes before

FLZ072-074-132145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
244 PM EST MON FEB 13 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS OVER MIAMI AND SOUTH DADE...

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM KENDALL ACROSS MIAMI AND
KEY BISCAYNE AT 233 PM AS OBSERVED BY THE MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR. ANOTHER
THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED OVER HOMESTEAD EASTWARD ACROSS ELLIOT KEY. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH.  THE THUNDERSTORM OVER MIAMI
WILL BE MOVING ACROSS MIAMI BEACH BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM.  MOST OF THIS
RAIN SHOULD HAVE DISSIPATED SHORTLY AFTER RUSH HOUR STARTS.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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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.