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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Miami, FL

July 10, 1997Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1997, 3:26 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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 10, 1997, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 1997-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3508 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 1997-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
3508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 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 101929 RRA
SVRMIA
FLC021-102015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
326 PM EDT THU JUL 10 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...EASTERN COLLIER COUNTY
 
 
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN COLLIER COUNTY EXTENDED UNTIL
415 PM EDT...
 
AT 323 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN COLLIER COUNTY. THE STORM WAS
APPROACHING INTERSTATE 75 FROM THE SOUTH BETWEEN MILE CITY AND THE
BROWARD COUNTY BORDER. AS THE STORM MOVES NORTH AT 20 MPH IT WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH DIAMETER AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS OVER
57 MPH.
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN REPORT THE
SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD
REDUCE SPEED OR PULL OFF ROADWAY AT A SAFE LOCATION UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier48 min
Jul 10, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLHendry52 min
Jul 10, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLHendry37 min
Jul 10, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLGlades39 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.