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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Miami, FL

November 14, 1997Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 1997, 8:56 AM EST for Broward 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
Nov 14, 1997, 8:56 AM EST (13:56 UTC)
Expired
Nov 14, 1997, 10:00 AM EST
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Broward County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 40 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 1997-11-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 667 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-11-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
9.9

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The text

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

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, Nov 14, 6:13 AM EST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
FLZ063-066>078-502>504-142200-

SOUTH FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
615 AM EST THU NOV 13 1997

...COASTAL FLOODING POSSIBLE SOUTHWEST COAST AND KEYS...
...FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE THROUGH NOON...
...RIP CURRENTS LIKELY ALONG THE SOUTHEAST COAST...
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY ALL SOUTH FLORIDA WATERS...

STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW AND A MOIST UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL BE
AFFECTING SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM
AND MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREAS THIS MORNING. THE RESULTING HEAVY
RAINFALL COULD CAUSE FLOODING. THE AREAS AFFECTED BY THESE
THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL SHIFT SLOWLY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST
TODAY.

PERSISTENT SOUTHWEST WINDS IN EXCESS OF 20 KNOTS MAY CAUSE TIDES TO
RUN A FEW FEET HIGHER THAN NORMAL ALONG THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COAST
AND LOWER KEYS. ELEVATIONS BELOW 4 FEET MAY FLOOD...ESPECIALLY AROUND
HIGH TIDE THIS MORNING. HEAVY SURF WILL CAUSE MINOR BEACH EROSION ON
EXPOSED SOUTHWEST FACING BEACHES ALONG COLLIERS COAST. RIP CURRENTS
ARE LIKELY ALONG BOTH THE SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST COASTS OF FLORIDA.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 14, 9:01 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward59 min

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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.