Funnel Cloud, Miami-Dade
- When
- October 28, 2:38 PM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, 1.38 mi N of North Miami Beach
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 25.940, -80.180
A funnel cloud was reported southeast of I-95 and south of NE 183rd Street.
Scattered showers developed during the afternoon as deep moisture streamed across South Florida ahead of a stalled frontal boundary over the Gulf of Mexico. A brief funnel cloud was reported near the beach as a band of showers moved offshore.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
Scattered showers developed during the afternoon as deep moisture streamed across South Florida ahead of a stalled frontal boundary over the Gulf of Mexico. A brief funnel cloud was reported near the beach as a band of showers moved offshore.
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 Oct 28, 12:31 PM EST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
131 PM EDT WED OCT 28 2015
.AVIATION...
MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH STALLED GULF OF MEXICO FRONT IS CURRENTLY
ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA AND IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN THERE THROUGH MUCH
OF THURSDAY. SHOWERS/TSTMS HAVE BEEN MOST NUMEROUS ALONG PORTIONS
OF THE GULF COAST TODAY, BUT EXPECT AN INCREASE IN THIS ACTIVITY
CLOSER TO THE EAST COAST TERMINALS DURING THE MID/LATE AFTERNOON
HOURS. INSTABILITY APPEARS TO BE RATHER WEAK AND FOR NOW
INDICATING TEMPO SHRA, ALTHOUGH A COUPLE OF TSTMS ARE CERTAINLY
NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. MVFR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE
PRECIPITATION AT ALL TERMINALS. S-SW WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL
BECOME LIGHT SW AFTER 00Z. MOST OF THE SHRA SHOULD TAPER OFF LATE
THIS EVENING EXCEPT ALONG GULF COAST. FOR THURSDAY, DEEP SW FLOW
KEEPS AT LEAST SCATTERED SHRA/VCSH ACROSS AREA WITH NO APPRECIABLE
CLEARING/DRYING UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE EARLIEST. /MOLLEDA
&&
.MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR FLZ168-172-
173.
AM...NONE.
GM...NONE.
&&HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 302 AM EDT WED OCT 28 2015 AMZ610-630-650-651-670-671-FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-GMZ656-657-676- 290100- LAKE OKEECHOBEE-BISCAYNE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM JUPITER INLET TO DEERFIELD BEACH, FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF, FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM JUPITER INLET TO DEERFIELD BEACH, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO THE TERRITORIAL WATERS OF THE BAHAMAS-GLADES-HENDRY- INLAND PALM BEACH-METRO PALM BEACH-COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER- INLAND BROWARD-METRO BROWARD-INLAND MIAMI DADE-METRO MIAMI DADE- MAINLAND MONROE-COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD- COASTAL MIAMI DADE-FAR SOUTH MIAMI DADE- COASTAL WATERS FROM CHOKOLOSKEE TO BONITA BEACH, FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM EAST CAPE SABLE TO CHOKOLOSKEE, FL OUT 20 NM- GULF WATERS FROM CHOKOLOSKEE TO BONITA BEACH, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 302 AM EDT WED OCT 28 2015 ...TIDAL FLOODING AT HIGH TIDES POSSIBLE NEXT FEW DAYS... ...FEW STORMS POSSIBLE OVER SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT FLOODING: COASTAL FLOODING OF BEACH COMMUNITIES IS EXPECTED WITH EACH HIGH TIDE TODAY, WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACH COMMUNITIES. A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ATLANTIC COAST. SALT WATER STREET FLOODING, THE OVER- TOPPING OF DOCKS AND SEA WALLS, AND STORM DRAINS BACKING UP IS LIKELY WITH EACH HIGH TIDE. HIGH TIDES WILL OCCUR THIS MORNING AND AGAIN LATE EVENING ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST. THUNDERSTORMS: A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP OVER SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY WITH THE PRIMARY IMPACTS BEING LIGHTNING STRIKES, GUSTY WINDS, AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. RIP CURRENTS: THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS WILL RETURN TO THE EAST COAST BEACHES OF SOUTH FLORIDA THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE WINDS BECOME EASTERLY AGAIN OVER THE AREA. COASTAL FLOODING IS LIKELY ALONG VULNERABLE LOCATIONS THROUGH REST OF THE WEEK DURING TIMES OF HIGH TIDES AS THE FULL MOON WANES. TIDES CONTINUE TO RUN A HALF FOOT TO NEARLY A FOOT ABOVE PREDICTED LEVELS AND THIS MAY CAUSE STORM DRAINS TO BACK UP, SOME STREET FLOODING, AND THE OVER- TOPPING OF SEA WALLS AND DOCKS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI. BAXTER
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1149 AM EDT WED OCT 28 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0930 AM COASTAL FLOOD 2 ESE BOCA RATON 26.35N 80.07W
10/28/2015 PALM BEACH FL BROADCAST MEDIA
TIDAL FLOODING ON WAVECREST WAY ALONG LAKE BOCA RATON.
WATER SPILLED OVER THE SEAWALL AND COVERING THE STREET.
&&
EVENT NUMBER MFL1500418
MOLLEDAThe Miami radar (KAMX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:36 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was reported southeast of I-95 and south of NE 183rd Street.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, October 2015
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: 602459.