Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 8:10 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 65 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
- Jun 14, 1997, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 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 00:10 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, 0.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
419 WUUS1 KMIA 150011 RRA SVRMIA FLC011-150115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 810 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ...BROWARD COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 805 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT MIAMI INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN BROWARD COUNTY. THIS LINE IS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. ALL OF METRO BROWARD COUNTY WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. 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. &
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, Jun 14, 7:54 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
754 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM BAL HARBOUR FL
06/14/97 DADE WATERSPOUT REPORTED 100
YARDS OFF THE OFFSHORE
BETWEEN 96TH AND 97TH
STREETS AT 625 PM (EDT).
WATERSPOUT LASTED
APPROXIMATELY 11 MINUTES.
0630 PM CORAL GABLES FL
06/14/97 DADE 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL
BETWEEN 6:15 PM AND 7:30
PM (EDT). MINOR STREET
FLOODING REPORTED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 3:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 34 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.