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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Miami, FL

May 15, 2000Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2000, 5:28 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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: May 15, 2000, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties

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

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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
May 15, 5:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 M	Miami, FL

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 15, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 20 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMFL 152128
SVRMIA
FLC011-025-152200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
528 PM EDT MON MAY 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST BROWARD COUNTY  
  EAST DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS  OVER SOUTHEAST BROWARD             
  COUNTY NEAR HOLLYWOOD SOUTH TO NEAR HOMESTEAD IN EASTERN           
  MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. 


THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING
  LARGE HAIL HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS.
 
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
ONFFICE IN MIAMI.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	30 min
May 15, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	33 min
May 15, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	61 min
May 15, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Glades	58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.