Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1996, 4:12 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1996, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 4:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Ft Lauderdle Hlywd A, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 2 hours 59 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, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.