Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1997, 4:56 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 64 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
- May 3, 1997, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1980 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 032059 RRA SVRMIA FLC099-032200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 456 PM EDT SAT MAY 3 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ...PALM BEACH COUNTY AT 453 PM MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF PALM BEACH COUNTY EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES EAST OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE TO THE LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING SEVERE WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL...ALONG WITH LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN REPORT THE SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
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, May 3, 4:39 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
439 PM EDT SAT MAY 03 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM BUCKHEAD RIDGE FL TORNADO
05/03/97 GLADES *** 2 INJ ***
5 HOMES WITH MODERATE
DAMAGE. 2 MINOR INJURIES.
SEVERAL ROADS BLOCKED BY
DOWNED TREES. NUMEROUS
POWER OUTAGES FROM DOWNED
LINES. OCCURRED BETWEEN
330 AND 400 PM.Local storm report, May 3, 4:43 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
439 PM EDT SAT MAY 03 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM BUCKHEAD RIDGE FL TORNADO
05/03/97 GLADES *** 2 INJ ***
5 HOMES WITH MODERATE
DAMAGE. 2 MINOR INJURIES.
SEVERAL ROADS BLOCKED BY
DOWNED TREES. NUMEROUS
POWER OUTAGES FROM DOWNED
LINES. OCCURRED BETWEEN
330 AND 400 PM.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.