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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2026, 3:39 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 16, 2026, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2026, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 762 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 Mar 16, 2:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 2:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:17 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFL | 4 days | |
| Mar 16, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 27 min | |
| Mar 16, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 28 min | |
| Mar 16, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Martin | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 32 min | |
| Mar 16, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 42 min | |
| Mar 16, 5:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Palm Beach | 66 min |
| Mar 16, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 27 min | |
| Mar 16, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 66 min | |
| Mar 16, 7:04 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | MFL | Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 6 days |
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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.