Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2000, 4:44 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2000, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 4:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Hialeah, 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 nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 3 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
- 1336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
220 WUUS52 KMFL 072044 SVRMIA FLC025-072145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 444 PM EDT WED JUN 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CORAL GABLES...HIALEAH...KENDALL... SOUTH MIAMI * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 439 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HIALEAH..MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT... OVER HIALEAH AT 500 PM EDT OVER MIAMI SPRINGS...MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT 510 PM EDT OVER SWEETWATER...5 MILES WEST OF CORAL GABLES AT 525 PM EDT 4 MILES WEST OF SOUTH MIAMI AT 535 PM EDT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF KENDALL...3 MILES EAST OF KENDALL LAKES...7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PERRINE...7 MILES NORTH OF CUTLER RIDGE AT 545 PM EDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. LAT...LON 2593 8016 2596 8035 2561 8053 2554 8028
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.