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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Miami, FL

July 9, 1997Hendry County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 5:20 PM EDT for Hendry 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
Jul 9, 1997, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Hendry County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 1997-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3416 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 1997-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 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
3416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMIA 092122 RRA
SVRMIA
FLC051-092215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
520 PM EDT WED JUL 9 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTH FLORIDA
 
   ...HENDRY COUNTY
 
AT 517 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HENDRY COUNTY. THESE
STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OVER 55
MPH...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY DOWPOURS. VERY
LITTLE MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS INDICATED BY RADAR.
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN REPORT THE
SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward52 min
Jul 9, 6:08 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLCollier52 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.