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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Miami, FL

May 12, 1999Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1999, 3:15 PM EDT for Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 1999, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 1999, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Broward County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 12, 3:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Ft Lauderdale, FL
May 12, 3:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Boca Raton, FL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 12, 9:22 AM EDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
922 AM EDT WED MAY 12 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0453 PM    MIAMI NEW TAMIAMI ARPT    FL   .75 INCH HAIL
05/11/99   DADE                           DIME SIZE HAIL OBSERVED AT
                                          TAMIAMI AIRPORT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 1:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	25 min
May 12, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	31 min
May 12, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	45 min
May 12, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	27 min
May 12, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	31 min
May 12, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	37 min
May 12, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	45 min
May 12, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	29 min
May 12, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	41 min
May 12, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	45 min
May 12, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	39 min
May 12, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	63 min
May 12, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.