Florida Seeing A True Thunderstorm Season
Posted by Jeff Gammons on 24 Jul 2007 at 10:20 am
Tagged as: Florida Weather, Storm Photography
Yesterday morning as I was driving into the metro area of south Florida, you could see the sunrise give way to towering early morning thunderstorms at the beach. It was a awesome sight to see as storms rocked right along the coast. Throughout the morning hours, several water spout reports came in from spouts near Ft Lauderdale and Boca Raton. I was able to capture the leftovers of a small weak funnel that was moving onshore near Lantana Beach, located in Central Palm Beach County.
I filmed as another cell tried to get going right at the coast over the resorts, filming people running from all the wild close lightning. The storm had a little low-level spin to it as it slowly moved north of the beach. The storm had a nice little bowl shape structure to the base before outflow winds form a storm further south cut it off. Yesterday was another fun Florida storm day, but this time at the beaches. I plan to hunt down more water spouts in the coming weeks, possibly Florida Keys trip in the works as well.
And it continues….
TIMING OF STORM INITATION DEPENDENT ON EXTENT OF DEBRIS SPREAD VERSUS SUNSHINE THIS MORNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF EAST COAST SEA BREEZE. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY DOWNPOUR AND LIGHTNINGCONCERNS…THE ENHANCED WINDS ALOFT AND BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS WILL MAKE ENVIRONMENT MORE FAVORABLE FOR BRIEF FUNNEL/TOR/SPOUT FORMATION ALONG BOUNDARIES.
As for today, yet another active strong to severe thunderstorm day shaping up. What a great thunderstorm season here in Florida compared to the last two years. I feel like things are a little back to normal over the state. The drought still has it’s marks, but the rains are here. I have some early day errands to complete, but I will be focused on all the mesoscale boundaries that are almost like clock-work later today. Nothing in the tropics to even look at, so my attention remains on the lightning storm season here in Florida….for now.
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I’m hoping to see a little action as I head down to Bronson for that spotter class.
Bronson is a nice place to base out of just before a hurricane landfall near Cedar Key, FL. Not much in Cedar Key, so Bronson is nice.
You might be able to play the west coast sea breeze up there. You should see some action the ways it’s looking…good luck!
Yep. Things look pretty good today for our Chasing Storms course at UF. We might head out this afternoon if things hold together.
Hey Charles! Yes if we can keep this debris cloud cover down and get some heating going, the west coast sea breeze should buff up some. At any rate, nice cape and moisture to work with. We’ll all have to wait for the boundaries to get going and play the late afternoon / early evening chase ops.
Have fun up there!
Update: 1:40pm ET
SPC just issued a MCD #1573 for much of central and south FLorida. Expecting isolated severe storms to develop in the coming ours… Small change of a isolated tornado as well. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md1573.html
LOL You should see Ceder Key!
You knw what funny jeff upon meeting jenn on the radio the newscaster said looked like we were gonna get some rain but it just fizzled out. I forgot to tell jenn that… to funny!
Yes this worries me some come time for landfalling hurricanes.