Jun 5, 2020
A tight pressure gradient between a subtropical high in the Atlantic and Tropical Depression Cristobal over the Yucatan Peninsula helped to loft deep tropical moisture into South Florida. An outflow boundary racing northward from Cuba and strengthening southwesterly flow in the upper levels in association with an upper-level trough over the northern Gulf of Mexico provided sufficient lift and enough synoptic ascent for thunderstorms to develop in the afternoon and evening hours. With the abundan
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 896395). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
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