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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Miami, FL

July 2, 1998Hendry County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1998, 5:36 PM EDT for Hendry 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
Jul 2, 1998, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1998, 6:40 PM EDT
In force
64 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 21:37 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, 9.6 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 1998-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1001 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
1001 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1428 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 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.

549 
WUUS1 KMIA 022135 RRA
SVRMIA
FLC051-022240-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
536 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 640 PM EDT

* AT 530 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  5 MILES NORTH OF LABELLE AND 15 MILES EAST OF LABELLE. THESE
  STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH.

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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLGlades62 min
Jul 2, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier60 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.