Severe Thunderstorm – Miami, Florida – June 6, 2009

Following the violent June 5th, 2009 thunderstorm that produced exceptionally heavy rainfall and flooding over Miami Beach, another severe thunderstorm moved across the downtown Miami area on Saturday, June 6th… producing a small area of notable rotation (within a broader circulation), some very low and rapidly developing scud, and a brief period of torrential rain…. [Continue Reading]

VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM IN MIAMI BEACH – 80MPH wind gusts

Every local I spoke to said they had never seen a thunderstorm this bad before in Miami. There was golf ball sized hail, incredible hurricane force wind gusts and nearly non stop CG lightning strikes, many of which struck the building I was taking shelter in. The winds came and went four different times over… [Continue Reading]