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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Miami, FL

September 16, 2000Collier County, Hendry County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2000, 3:27 PM EDT for Collier County, Hendry County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
Sep 16, 2000, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Collier County, FL, Hendry County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 2000-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 697 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 2000-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
697 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMFL 161927
SVRMIA
FLC021-051-162000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
327 PM EDT SAT SEP 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA
  NORTH CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 327 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  IMMOKALEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BUNKER HILL AND IMMOKALEE BY 340 PM EDT...
  FELDA BY 355 PM EDT...
  KERI BY 400 PM EDT...

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. OR YOU CAN
ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT
305-229-4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 2633 8167 2620 8153 2624 8150 2644 8121
          2660 8140

.END

LUSHINE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 6:08 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward52 min
Sep 16, 6:43 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.