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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Miami, FL

April 26, 2026Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2026, 7:27 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 7 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: Apr 26, 2026, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2026, 7:34 PM EDT
In force: 7 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Key West, FL (KNQX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Apr 26, 7:24 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 7:24 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 26, 6:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 6:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	44 min
Apr 26, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	33 min
Apr 26, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	26 min
Apr 26, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		38 min
Apr 26, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	34 min
Apr 26, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	16 min

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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.