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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Miami, FL

August 15, 2000Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2000, 5:33 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 42 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
Aug 15, 2000, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 2000-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1523 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 2000-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1523 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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 152139
SVRMIA
FLC025-152215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED HEADER TO SVR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
533 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 533 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES EAST
  OF PA-HAY OKEE OVERLOOK...OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF HOMESTEAD...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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 AuN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.


LAT...LON 2546 8065 2545 8085 2504 8086 2505 8061

$$

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.