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Marine Thunderstorm Wind · Gulf of Mexico

Marine Thunderstorm Wind April 15, 2018 · Florida Bay Including Barnes Sound, Blackwater Sound, and Buttonwood Sound, Gulf of Mexico

40 mph

Measured gust (35 kt)

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A wind gust of 35 knots was measured at an automated WeatherFlow station on Upper Matecumbe Key.

The wider storm

A squall line in advance of an east-ward moving cold front in the southeast Gulf of Mexico swept through the Florida Keys. The squall line produced widespread gale-force wind gusts in as it moved from Dry Tortugas National Park during the late afternoon hours of April 15th, to Key West after sunset, and later through the upper Keys within two hours.

Began near Plantation Key (24.9189, -80.6351).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 754393. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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