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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Miami, FL

October 8, 1996Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1996, 11:50 AM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 55 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, 11:50 AM EDT (15:50 UTC)
Expired
Oct 8, 1996, 12:45 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 20 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1614 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1614 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
8.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 8, 6:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier66 min
Oct 8, 8:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier61 min
Oct 8, 9:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier, Hendry, Palm Beach60 min
Oct 8, 11:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade, Monroe66 min
Oct 8, 11:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward66 min
Oct 8, 11:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMonroe55 min
Oct 8, 12:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade57 min
Oct 8, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade41 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.