Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 7:11 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 64 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 19, 1996, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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 19, 7:51 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 | Miami Intl, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 1017 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 KMIA 192318 COR SVRMIA FLC025-200015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 711 PM EDT WED JUN 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ...EASTERN DADE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS INCLUDING BISCAYNE BAY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER DADE COUNTY FROM NEAR SWEETWATER TO PERRINE. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AND WILL AFFECT AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN DADE COUNTY THROUGH 815 PM. 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
Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED HEADER TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
439 PM EDT WED JUN 19 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0130 PM OKEELANTA FL 1.5 INCH HAIL
06/19/96 PALM BEACH REPORTED BY PALM BEACH
SHERIFFS OFFICE. NO
DAMAGE REPORTS WERE
RECEIVED.
0215 PM PALM BEACH GARDENS FL .5 INCH HAIL
06/19/96 PALM BEACH REPORTED AT PGA BLVD AND
A1A BY WEST PALRM BEACH
NEWS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 69 min |
| Jun 19, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.