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National Weather Service ABUS30 KMIA 240158 SWSFL STATE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL 1000 PM EDT FRI MAY 23 1997 ...SEVERE WEATHER STRIKES SUNSHINE STATE AGAIN... THE START OF THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND BEGAN WITH A BANG OVER SEVERAL CENTRAL AND SOUTH FLORIDA COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN DEVELOPED FROM THE INTERACTION OF SEA BREEZE BOUNDARIES AND SURFACE HEATING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSED DAMAGE IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY...WHERE THREE QUARTER TO ONE AND THREE QUARTER INCH /.75-1.75 INCH/ HAIL WAS REPORTED. THE HILLBOUROUGH FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THONOTOSASSA...FLORIDA ...WITH SUBSEQUENT WIND DAMAGE FELLING TREES AND POWERLINES OVER THIS AREA. OTHERWISE...SKIES WERE VARIABLE STATEWIDE DURING THE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON...BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE SUNSHINE STATE BY LATE AFTERNOON. RAINFALL WAS SCATTERED TODAY WITH MOST LOCATIONS REPORTING LESS THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH/.75 INCHES/ DURING THE PAST TWENTY FOUR HOURS. FT MYERS SKEWED THIS TREND BY COLLECTING A LITTLE OVER ONE AND EIGHT TENTHS INCHES/1.81 INCHES/. LASTLY...HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WERE A BIT COOLER ACROSS MOST COUNTIES...WITH READINGS RANGING FROM THE LOW 80S TO THE LOW 90S. THE ONLY HOLD OUT WITH THIS TREND WAS FT MYERS...WHICH POSTED A MAX TEMPERATURE OF 94 DEGREES. NNNN
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