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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Miami, FL

August 14, 2000Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Broward County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 14, 6:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Lauderhill, 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 nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 1468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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.

354 
WUUS52 KMFL 142209
SVRMIA
FLC011-142245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
608 PM EDT MON AUG 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 608 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WIT DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL OVER      
  CORAL SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM IN
THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE OR BUSINESS IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

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.


LAT...LON 2631 8023 2631 8041 2603 8029 2612 8006

$$


WARNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	23 min
Aug 14, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	25 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.