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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Miami, FL

June 15, 2001Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 3:47 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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 15, 2001, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Miami-Dade County, FL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 3:52 PM EDTHail 0.75Miami, FLA Park Ranger at the Shark Valley portion of Everglades National Park reported dime-size hail.

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 12:00Z, 7.8 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2491 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 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
2491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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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.