Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2004, 2:18 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2004, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2004, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 1186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMFL 161818 SVRMIA FLC011-161915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 217 PM EDT FRI JUL 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 217 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL OVER PEMBROKE PINES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE STORM WILL AFFECT... PEMBROKE PINES. NORTH PERRY AIRPORT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. LAT...LON 2610 8030 2597 8040 2597 8023 2612 8014 $$ JBL
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.
NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 1:45 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 1:45 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
SOUTH FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 145 PM EDT FRI JUL 16 2004 .DISCUSSION...SURFACE RIDGE STILL SOUTH OF THE CWA AND SHOULD REMAIN SOUTH THROUGH MID WEEK. AFTER THAT...THE SURFACE RIDGE WILL MOVE NORTH AGAIN AND BE OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THROUGH AT LEAST TUESDAY...AM BUYING THE 50 TO 60 PERCENT POPS THE GFS IS ADVERTISING OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH FLORIDA EACH AFTERNOON. A LONG WAVE TROUGH IN THE MID/UPPER LEVELS HAS BEEN TAKING UP RESIDENCE OVER THE EAST SIDE OF THE COUNTRY WITH A RIDGE OVER THE WEST. CONVECTION WILL BE ENHANCED LATER TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT DUE TO A MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE JUST ABOUT TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTH FLORIDA. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES WILL BE ROTATING AROUND THE LONG WAVE AT LEAST THROUGH TUESDAY TO ENCHANCE ACTIVITY EACH AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE GFS SHOWS THE LAST SHORT WAVE PASSING SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH FLORIDA EARLY WEDNESDAY AND BY NEXT WEEKEND...MID/UPPER RIDGING WILL BUILD IN TO OUR NORTH...SO FOR THE LATER PART OF NEXT WEEK WE WILL SEE THE HIGHER POPS SHIFT WESTWARD AGAIN. && .MARINE...WINDS WILL REMAIN MAINLY SOUTH/SOUTHWEST LESS THAN 10 KNOTS THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...THEN SHIFT SE. NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED. && .FIRE WEATHER...NO HIGHLIGHT ANTICIPATED. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WEST PALM BEACH 76 93 76 93 / 40 60 40 50 FORT LAUDERDALE 78 91 77 92 / 30 50 30 50 MIAMI 78 92 77 93 / 30 50 30 50 NAPLES 78 90 78 89 / 20 30 20 30 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 4:05 AM EDT, 10 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 405 AM EDT FRI JUL 16 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA FLZ063-066>075-162100- BROWARD METROPOLITAN-DADE METROPOLITAN-EASTERN COLLIER-GLADES-HENDRY- MAINLAND MONROE-PALM BEACH EASTERN-PALM BEACH WESTERN- WESTERN BROWARD-WESTERN COLLIER-WESTERN DADE- 405 AM EDT FRI JUL 16 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY ...HIGH RISK OF LIGHTNING PALM BEACH COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON... ...MODERATE RISK OF LIGHTNING REST OF EAST AND INTERIOR... ...STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE INTERIOR AND EAST COAST THIS AFTERNOON... ...HEAT INDICES 105 TO 110 MOST AREAS... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE INTERIOR AND EAST COAST METRO AREAS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING, AND COULD ALSO BE STRONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL POSSIBLE. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL OCCURRED YESTERDAY, AND THIS CANNOT BE RULED OUT FROM OCCURRING AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S ACROSS INTERIOR AND EASTERN LOCATIONS, COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY, WILL MAKE IT FEEL AS IF TEMPERATURES WILL BE 105 TO 110. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON INTERIOR AND EAST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 65 min |
| Jul 16, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 65 min |
| Jul 16, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 64 min | |
| Jul 16, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.