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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1998, 4:41 AM EST for Palm Beach 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
- Mar 9, 1998, 4:41 AM EST (09:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1998, 5:45 AM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1605 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
599 WUUS1 KMIA 090942 RRA SVRMIA FLC099-091045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 441 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI FL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA ...EASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY AT 438 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING EASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY FROM THE WEST. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WIND DAMAGE AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE METRO AREAS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING NOW.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 59 min |
| Mar 9, 3:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Glades, Hendry | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 4:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 31 min |
| Mar 9, 4:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 5:33 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 32 min |
| Mar 9, 5:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 21 min |
| Mar 9, 6:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 29 min |
| Mar 9, 6:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 7:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 8:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 91 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.