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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Miami, FL

June 11, 2001Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Miami-Dade County, FL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 8:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EHialeah, FLTree limbs and power lines were blown down.

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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3395 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
3395 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 1:55 PM EDT, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:55 PM EDT, 6 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
155 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2001

THE 12Z MODEL RUNS ALL SEEM TO BE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT AND NOT
PLANNING ANY MAJOR CHANGES TO EXISTING FORECAST. MAIN WEATHER
FEATURE OF INTEREST CONTINUES TO BE POSITION AND FORECAST TRACK OF
REMAINS OF ALLISON. AVN AND ETA BOTH TAKE SYSTEM FROM CURRENT
LOCATION...WHICH IS JUST NORTHWEST OF MOBILE...AND MOVE IT ON
NORTHEAST TRACK TO NORTHEAST ALABAMA BY EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
MODELS THEN WEAKEN IT FURTHER AS IT MOVES INTO MID ATLANTIC STATES
TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK. CLOSER TO HOME...THUNDERSTORMS SLOW TO
GET GOING AGAIN TODAY AND EXPECT LATE AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT WHERE
SEA BREEZES COLLIDE THEN ACTIVITY SHOULD MOVE EAST. EXPECT ONLY
SCATTERED COVERAGE AT THE MOST. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM
PERIOD...SURFACE RIDGE AXIS WHICH CURRENTLY LIES OVER EXTREME SOUTH
FLORIDA IS FORECAST TO SLOWLY MIGRATE NORTH AND BE LOCATED NEAR OR
JUST NORTH OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. ETA/AVN ADVECT
DRIER AIR INTO AREA...WITH FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATING
PRECIPITABLE WATERS DROPPING BETWEEN A QUARTER AND A HALF INCH
DURING THE NEXT THIRTY SIX HOURS. WITH THIS IN MIND...WILL GO WITH
ONLY SCATTERED COVERAGE AT THE MOST WITH HIGHEST POPS OVER INTERIOR
AREAS. BY WEDNESDAY...EASTERLY FLOW SHOULD BE STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP
BULK OF ACTIVITY FURTHER INLAND WITH TRANSITION TO LATE
NIGHT/MORNING SHOWERS EAST COAST AND INTERIOR/WEST COAST DURING THE
AFTERNOON. AS FAR AS TEMPS GO...LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER VERY WARM DAY
TUESDAY..THEN NOT QUITE AS WARM WEDNESDAY WITH EARLIER SEA BREEZE
ALONG EAST COAST.

MARINE...NO PROBLEMS HERE. WINDS MAINLY 5 TO 10 KNOTS OR LESS
THROUGH WEDNESDAY...THEN ABOUT 10 KNOTS THROUGH EXTENDED AS RIDGE
RETREATS NORTH OR AREA.

FIRE WEATHER...NO HIGHLIGHTS.

EXTENDED...LATEST AVN MODEL KEEPS SURFACE RIDGE TO THE NORTH OF LAKE
OKEECHOBEE THROvUGH MOST OF THE PERIOD...SO WILL KEEP EXTENDED PRETTY
MUCH UNCHANGED.

MIA BB 076/091 075/091 077 483333
PBI BB 074/091 075/091 077 483333

.MIA...NONE.

KOSIER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach67 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.