Thunderstorm Wind, Miami-Dade
- When
- August 11, 1:00 PM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, Carol City
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 25.933, -80.267
A tree was blown down near 52nd Avenue.
Damaging Wind in Florida, August 11, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 11, 8:55 AM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 8:55 AM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTH FLORIDA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI 955 AM EDT MON AUG 11 2003 MORNING MIAMI SOUNDING SOMEWHAT MORE UNSTABLE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY AS H5 TEMPERATURE HAS DROPPED TO -9C AND VERTICAL TOTALS ARE JUST OVER 27C. PRECIPITABLE WATER HAS DROPPED JUST A BIT BUT ASSUME THAT IS TEMPORARY. WILL HIGHLIGHT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK TO INCLUDE A BETTER CHANCE OF STRONG WIND GUSTS AND POSSIBLY HAIL WITH COLDER TEMPS AND MORE DRY AIR ALOFT. AS FAR AS TIMING OF THE CONVECTION...NWS/UM NESTED MESOETA SHOWS VIGOROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING EAST COAST AREA AROUND 3 PM EDT AND INCREASING THROUGH AROUND 7-8 PM EDT...SOMEWHAT LATER THAN YESTERDAY. WILL ENHANCE ZONE FORECAST WORDING SOME TO SHOW THIS. THE GULF COAST OF SOUTH FLORIDA FROM COLLIER SOUTH IS NOT DEPICTED AS ACTIVE AS THE ATLANTIC COAST THIS AFTERNOON...BUT STILL SOME THUNDERSTORMS AROUND ESPECIALLY INLAND. 50 .MIA...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 8:05 AM EST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
FLZ063-066>075-112200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 905 AM EDT MON AUG 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY ...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS INTERIOR THIS AFTERNOON... ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COASTAL AREAS... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH FLORIDA ONCE AGAIN TODAY. THE MOST FAVORED AREAS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE NEAR COASTAL AREAS EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON ONCE THE SEABREEZE CIRCULATION BECOMES WELL ESTABLISHED. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE TOWARD THE INTERIOR REGIONS AS THE SEABREEZES MOVE INLAND. HOWEVER...DUE TO A SLIGHT SOUTHWEST STEERING FLOW...STORMS WILL LIKELY CLUSTER OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA PENINSULA BY THE END OF THE DAY. SOMEWHAT COLDER AIR ALOFT HAS MOVED ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA IN THE LAST 24 HOURS...ENHANCING THE INSTABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...STRONG WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH...AND POSSIBLY EVEN HAIL WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. 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...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS BECOME STRONG.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 11, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 11, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 11, 2003
- Flash Flood in New York, August 11 to 12, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 11, 2003
- Flash Flooding in New York, August 11 to 12, 2003
- Flash Flood in Massachusetts, August 11, 2003
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Kentucky, August 11, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 11, 2003
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 11, 2003
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, August 11, 2003
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Illinois, August 11, 2003
More
Every storm in Florida in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, August 2003
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: 5334587.