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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL

January 24, 2000Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 2000, 1:25 PM EST for Broward County, Palm Beach 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jan 24, 2000, 1:25 PM EST (18:25 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 2000, 2:15 PM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Broward County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 2000-01-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 421 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 2000-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 339 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
339 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
420 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
7.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMFL 241832
SVRMIA
FLC011-099-241915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
125 PM EST MON JAN 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  BROWARD COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 215 PM EST

* AT 125 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF BELLE  
  GLADE TO 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF CORAL SPRINGS TO 18 MILES WEST OF   
  CHAPEL TRAIL NATURE PRESERVE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WINDS UP TO    
  60 MILES AN HOUR. A TRAINFED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TRACTOR     
  TRAILER TRUCK OVERTURNED ON U.S. 27 AT 119 PM.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2667 8031 2641 8055 2603 8084 2596 7982
          2615 7949 2654 7962

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.