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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 31, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 KMFL 312138 SVRMIA FLC021-312215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 537 PM EDT MON JUL 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 537 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF PORT OF THE ISLANDS...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF EVERGLADES CITY...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 615 PM EDT... ROYAL PALM HAMMOCK AND SOUTH BLOCKS GOLDEN GATE ESTATES... FIDDLERS CREEK AND ISLE OF CAPRI... MARCO ISLAND... FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 2582 8135 2611 8139 2603 8235 2579 8233 $$
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.