imagery showing sea
breeze storm development
Every year from May through September we chase daily storms in
central and south Florida. Heating during the day helps setup
boundaries along the coastal locations and inland locations around
Lake Okeechobee. Hot air rising over the inland locations lets the cooler
air over the coastal waters on each coast to rush inland producing a sea
breeze boundary. This boundary moving inland and converges with
either the Lake Okeechobee breeze boundaries or the west coast sea
breeze boundary.
Once this convergence takes place, thunderstorms develop and pulse
along the boundary. Some produce short-lived severe weather with
winds over 60mph and small hail. Lightning is always very intense with
these storms and is what makes Florida known for is lightning each day.
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Breeze Storm
breeze storm
with shelf cloud
storm in Okeechobee
east coast boundary
timelapse clips of sea
breeze storm developing
or in the mature stage.
N. of Lake Okee
updraft development along
the east coast sea breeze
boundary in Palm Beach.
storm with lightning
sometimes boundaries
interacting with each other
can produce short-lived
low-level rotation.
coast sea breeze
was born out of viewing
local thunderstorms in
South Florida as a child.
Over the years I
studied how
thunderstorms
developed and more
about local forecasting.
I would ride my bike to
the west side of
Sunrise, Florida to
watch the storms over
the Everglades develop
and move towards the
coast.
Once in my teens I was
now driving out to the
storms and chasing
them back towards the
coast not knowing this
was known as storm
chasing. I was hooked
for life and it became a
daily run for me during
the summer months.
I'm now in my 30s and
and these days I travel
all over the nation in
search of storms, but I
still always enjoy
chasing my Florida sea
breeze thunderstorms.
- Jeff Gammons
impressive area of
convergence from the east
coast and lake breeze
boundaries coming togather.
loop of Florida shows all the
sea and lake boundaries in
motion as the afternoon
sets in on April 2, 2006.
Boundaries Reoprt (NWS)
Seabreeze/Outflow
Boundary Tornadoes
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By: Russell L. Pfost,
Pablo Santos, Jr., and
Thomas E. Warner
National Weather Service
Office Miami, Florida
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and document Florida Sea Breeze thunderstorms. I use a laptop with
wireless cell data card for internet while mobile for nexrad radar images
every five minutes. The laptop also runs my GPS software with my USB
GPS unit on the dash.
For camera's I have a dash Sony cam and my Pro Sony VX2100 cam. For
Digital I use a 5mega Nikon. I use a ICOM 2m/440 mobile Ham Radio
to communicate and monitor local area Skywarn nets, National Weather
Service warnings and discussions, as well as talk with other chasers while
in the field.
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