Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Key West, FL
NWS Key West, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 4:20 PM EDT for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1996, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1996, 5:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Key West, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 512 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 KEYW 142040 COR
SVREYW
FLC087-142120-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL
420 PM EDT TUE MAY 14 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 520 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
...MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDIACTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
OVER NORTHEAST MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY. LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT WAS
INDICATED.
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 14, 4:09 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
FLZ075-142100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 408 PM EDT TUE MAY 14 1996 ...STRONG CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MAINLAND MONROE... AT 400 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY... THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THE SLOW MOVING STORMS COULD CREATE FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST. . /4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Key West, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | KEY | Levy | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.