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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Miami, FL

May 28, 1997Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 1:37 AM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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 28, 1997, 1:37 AM EDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1997, 2:40 AM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 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 00:00Z, 5.6 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 00:00Z on 1997-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2965 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 00:00Z on 1997-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2965 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMIA 280537 RRA
SVRMIA
FLC011-FLZ502-280640-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
137 AM EDT WED MAY 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240
AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

   ...EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY
      AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO
      HALLANDALE
 
AT 130 AM...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM FROM OAKLAND PARK TO THE WESTERN PARTS OF FORT
LAUDERDALE. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE SOUTHEAST BROWARD
COMMUNITIES OF DAVIE...COOPER CITY...DANIA AND HOLLYWOOD
THROUGH 215 AM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 27, 11:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
1144 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1143 PM    HIALEAH                   FL   HAIL
05/27/97   DADE                           NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED PEA SIZED
                                          HAIL NEAR OKEECHOBEE ROAD AND
                                          SR 826.
Local storm report, May 27, 11:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
1144 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1143 PM    HIALEAH                   FL   HAIL
05/27/97   DADE                           NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED PEA SIZED
                                          HAIL NEAR OKEECHOBEE ROAD AND
                                          SR 826.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 10:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach60 min
May 27, 10:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach58 min
May 27, 11:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach55 min
May 28, 12:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade2 hr
May 28, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade60 min
May 28, 5:48 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade57 min
May 28, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.