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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Miami, FL

June 9, 1996Glades County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1996, 1:09 PM EDT for Glades County, Florida. It was in force for 66 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
Jun 9, 1996, 1:09 PM EDT (17:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Glades County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 829 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
829 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach61 min
Jun 9, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward59 min
Jun 9, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach56 min
Jun 9, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward63 min
Jun 9, 5:15 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward60 min
Jun 9, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.