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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1996, 2:19 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 56 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, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMIA 091815 SVRMIA FLC099-091915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 219 PM EDT SUN JUN 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ...EASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS TWO THUNDERSTORMS..POSSIBLY SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL...WERE INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR. ONE STORM WAS JUST NORTHWEST OF WEST PALM BEACH AT 215 PM... MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD NORTHEAST PALM BEACH COUNTY... AND MAY AFFECT AREAS FROM WEST PALM BEACH TO JUPITER THROUGH 315 PM. ANOTHER STORM WAS MOVING FROM BROWARD COUNTY INTO SOUTHEAST PALM BEACH COUNTY...AND MAY AFFECT AREAS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH AND BOCA RATON AND NORTHWARD OVER EASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY THROUGH 315 PM. 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 9, 1:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
113 PM EDT SUN JUN 09 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
110 PM BOCA RATON FL 1/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED
06/09/96 PALM BEACH COUNTY BY PALM BEACH SKY WARN
OFF OF MILITARY TRAIL
BETWEEN PALMETTO PARK ROAD
AND GLADES ROAD.The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 59 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.