Tornado Watch Has Ended and So Has Hurricane Season

For most of the afternoon we were in a Tornado Watch. The watch was actually extended by an hour for Broward and Miami-Dade counties while the squall line finished going through the area. For the most part there were no reports of severe weather associated with this feature in south Florida. There were power outages throughout the state and at least one tornado near Celebration.

For the remainder of the night we will see more showers and this will linger through Monday morning. After that skies will clear and the cooler weather will filter in. Lows Tuesday morning will be in the lower 50s.

Before the weather set in today NWS in Miami was asked to do a special upper air observation. The results of this yielded a very interesting depiction for south Florida and played a big part of the reasoning for the Tornado Watch. Here is the chart:



You can see around the 700mb level the sudden change between the temperature and the dewpoint. This is very rare for south Florida and if we had a bit more sunshine to help destabilize the atmosphere we could have had some serious weather around.

The final note tonight is that the 2008 Hurricane Season ends today. I will post some data later this week. The Sun-Sentinel ran a good summary story today and you can find it here.

Have a good night.