Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Key West, FL
NWS Key West, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2000, 7:13 PM EDT for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2000, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Key West, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 M | Marathon, FL | Wind gust occurred 5 miles east of Marathon. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KEYW 262327 COR SVREYW WUUS52 KEYW 262316 SVREYW FLC087-270000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 713 PM EDT SAT AUG 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA...THE MIDDLE KEYS IN MONROE COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 712 PM EDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED STRONG WINDS WITH THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MOVING WEST ACROSS THE MIDDLE KEYS. WIND GUSTS WERE ESTIMATED 50 TO 60 MPH NEAR A CLUSTER OF STORMS THAT WILL MOVE OVER MUCH OF THE MIDDLE KEYS...FROM GRASSY KEY AND MOVING TOWARD MARATHON. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS...AS WELL AS BOATERS ON ADJACENT WATERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS THROUGH 800 PM. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN KEY WEST.
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.