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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Miami, FL

September 27, 2000Glades County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 2000, 4:47 PM EDT for Glades County, Florida. It was in force for 58 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 27, 2000, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
Sep 27, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Glades County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1044 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
1044 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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 272048
SVRMIA
FLC043-272145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
447 PM EDT WED SEP 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN GLADES COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 447 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ABOUT 12    
  MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKEPORT...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS... 
STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF 
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WImNDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID 
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG 
UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 2721 8096 2718 8116 2680 8117 2680 8096

.END

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.