Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1996, 4:40 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 50 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
- Sep 12, 1996, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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
- 2217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 122040 SVRMIA FLC025-122130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 440 PM EDT THU SEP 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ...NORTHEASTERN DADE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS LARGE HAIL AROUND THREE QUARTERS INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS AROUND 40 MILES PER HOUR HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN NORTH MIAMI BEACH. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE SEVERE WEATHER IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL CROSS MIAMI BEACH AND MOVE INTO THE COASTAL WATERS BY 500 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
Special weather statement, Sep 12, 10:46 AM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
FLZ068-072-074-502-130100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1100 AM EST MON JUNE 05 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING THIS AFTERNOON... WEST WINDS...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND VERY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL LEAD TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF DADE...BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND PERSONS OUTDOORS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THEM FROM THE WEST. YESTERDAY...THREE PERSONS WERE INJURED BY LIGHTNING IN BROWARD COUNTY MAKING A TOTAL OF 36 PEOPLE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING IN THE THREE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COUNTIES SO FAR THIS YEAR. MANY OF THESE VICTIMS WERE IN UNSAFE LOCATIONS...SUCH AS NEAR A TALL TREE...NEAR WATER AND STANDING NEXT TO A VEHICLE. IN ADDITION TO THE LIGHTNING SOME OF THE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE QUITE STRONG WITH VERY GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY FLOODING RAINFALL.
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.