Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1996, 6:24 AM EDT for Collier 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
- Oct 8, 1996, 6:24 AM EDT (10:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1996, 7:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 2206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMIA 081027 RRA SVRMIA FLC021-081130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 624 AM EDT TUE OCT 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ...WESTERN COLLIER COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS APPROACHING THE COLLIER COUNTY COAST THIS MORNING...MOVING OFF THE WATER. DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. 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. THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN BOATER SAFETY WITH GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 KNOTS...ROUGH SEAS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. YOUR BEST COURSE OF ACTION IS TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR...BUT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT ON THE OPEN WATER...STAY BELOW DECK OR KEEP A LOW PROFILE AND KEEP AWAY FROM UNGROUNDED METAL OBJECTS. WEAR FLOTATION DEVICES. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN REPORT THE SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 8:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 61 min |
| Oct 8, 9:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach | 60 min |
| Oct 8, 11:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade, Monroe | 66 min |
| Oct 8, 11:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 66 min |
| Oct 8, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 55 min |
| Oct 8, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 55 min |
| Oct 8, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 57 min |
| Oct 8, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.