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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Miami, FL

May 10, 1999Broward County, Collier County, Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1999, 5:10 PM EDT for Broward County, Collier County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1999, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1999, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Broward County, FL, Collier County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 51 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 681 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier, Monroe46 min
May 10, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier, Hendry41 min
May 10, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Collier47 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.