Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1998, 6:18 AM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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, 6:18 AM EST (11:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1998, 7:20 AM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 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 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 31 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.
224 WUUS1 KMIA 091120 RRA SVRMIA FLC025-091220- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 618 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI FL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 720 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA ...DADE COUNTY AT 622 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER DADE COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. EXPECT WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH AS THE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. 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 STURDY BUILDING NOW.
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
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 6:00 AM EST, 18 minutes before
AMZ610-630-631-650>654-656-670>676-FLZ063-066>078-091700- SOUTH FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 600 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST FLORIDA UNTIL 7 AM... A SQUALL LINE WILL BRING THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER TO BROWARD...DADE AND MONROE COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG WINDS OR POSSIBLE TORNADOES ALONG WITH SOME LIGHTNING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DECREASE RAPIDLY AFTER 7 AM. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 6:00 AM EST, 18 minutes before
AMZ610-630-631-650>654-656-670>676-FLZ063-066>078-091700- SOUTH FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 600 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST FLORIDA UNTIL 7 AM... A SQUALL LINE WILL BRING THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER TO BROWARD...DADE AND MONROE COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG WINDS OR POSSIBLE TORNADOES ALONG WITH SOME LIGHTNING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DECREASE RAPIDLY AFTER 7 AM. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY.
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, 4:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 64 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, 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.