Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1998, 2:25 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 5, 1998, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1998, 3:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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 18:27 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 nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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
- 1626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 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
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
289 WUUS1 KMIA 051826 RRA SVRMIA FLC025-051910- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 225 PM EDT WED AUG 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 310 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR CENTERED JUST SOUTH OF MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS FROM SOUTHERN HIALEAH THROUGH VIRGINIA GARDENS TO SWEETWATER DURING THE NEXT HOUR. 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.
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
Local storm report, Aug 5, 10:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CHANGED TIMES TO EDT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1030 AM EDT WED AUG 05 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0448 PM WESTON FL 70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/04/98 BROWARD ESTIMATED WIND. TREES
DOWN. N OF WESTON NEAR
I-595.
0455 PM PLANTATION FL
08/04/98 BROWARD FUNNEL CLOUD AT I-595 AND
NOB HILL ROAD.
0546 PM PEMBROKE PINES FL 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/04/98 BROWARD ESTIMATED WIND. JUST
EAST OF US 27 AND PINES
BLVD. NO DAMAGE. ALSO
REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD.
0550 PM DAVIE FL
08/04/98 BROWARD FUNNEL CLOUD OVER US 441
AND I-595.
0603 PM WESTON FL .88 INCH HAIL
08/04/98 BROWARD NICKEL-SIZED HAIL AT I-75
AND ARVIDA PARKWAY.
RELAYED BY WSVN CHANNEL 7.Local storm report, Aug 5, 10:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CHANGED TIMES TO EDT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1030 AM EDT WED AUG 05 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0448 PM WESTON FL 70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/04/98 BROWARD ESTIMATED WIND. TREES
DOWN. N OF WESTON NEAR
I-595.
0455 PM PLANTATION FL
08/04/98 BROWARD FUNNEL CLOUD AT I-595 AND
NOB HILL ROAD.
0546 PM PEMBROKE PINES FL 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/04/98 BROWARD ESTIMATED WIND. JUST
EAST OF US 27 AND PINES
BLVD. NO DAMAGE. ALSO
REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD.
0550 PM DAVIE FL
08/04/98 BROWARD FUNNEL CLOUD OVER US 441
AND I-595.
0603 PM WESTON FL .88 INCH HAIL
08/04/98 BROWARD NICKEL-SIZED HAIL AT I-75
AND ARVIDA PARKWAY.
RELAYED BY WSVN CHANNEL 7.The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 64 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.