Hail, Miami-Dade
- When
- September 12, 3:35 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, North Miami Beach
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 25.920, -80.180
Hail in Florida, September 12, 1996
OUTFLOW BOUNDRY FROM THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD TRAVERSED THE STATE FROMFT MEYERS WITH THE WEST COAST SEABREEZE INTERSECTED THE EAST COASTSEABREEZE. THERE WAS MINOR DAMAGE TO HOUSES AND VEHICLES.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
OUTFLOW BOUNDRY FROM THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD TRAVERSED THE STATE FROMFT MEYERS WITH THE WEST COAST SEABREEZE INTERSECTED THE EAST COASTSEABREEZE. WIND GUSTS OF 70 TO 80 MPH UPROOTED LARGE TREES AND BLEW DOWN LARGE TREE LIMBS, POWER LINES, AND A TRAFFIC SIGNAL.THERE WAS MINOR DAMAGE TO HOUSES AND VEHICLES.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5563640.