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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Miami, FL

April 16, 2000Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2000, 4:51 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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
Apr 16, 2000, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 2000-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1299 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 2000-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
1299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 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 162054
SVRMIA
FLC025-162145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
451 PM EDT SUN APR 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  NORTH CENTRAL DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 451 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DADE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF
  KENDALL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER THE TAMIAMI TRAIL BETWEEN SHARK VALLEY 
AND KROME AVENUE THROUGH 530 PM EDT. 

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND TORRENTIAL RAIN TO OVER AN INCH 
  AN HOUR. 


LAT...LON 2591 8065 2579 8079 2562 8066 2577 8047

NNNN

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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.