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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Miami, FL

June 25, 2001Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 3:58 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2001, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2001, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.0 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1412 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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.

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 25, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
230 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

SHORT WAVE TROUGH OVER SOUTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON WILL
MOVE NORTHEAST TONIGHT...HOPEFULLY PUTTING AN END TO THE SEVERE
WEATHER OF THE PAST THREE DAYS.

SURFACE RIDGE GRADUALLY REBUILDS ACROSS NORTH FLORIDA ON TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY SHIFTING THE AFTERNOON CONVECTION FROM THE SOUTHEAST
FLORIDA TO SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.

EXTENDED...
TROPICAL WAVE NEAR 65W WILL MOVE WEST NORTHWEST WITH AXIS REACHING
SOUTH FLORIDA LATE WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY.  MOST CONCENTRATED
SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WITH THE WAVE WILL MOST LIKELY BE NEAR
ITS AXIS...THUS EVEN THOUGH DEEP LAYER MOISTURE PERSISTS ACROSS
SOUTH FLORIDA BEHIND THE WAVE THROUGH SATURDAY...POPS WILL BE
GREATEST WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. THE FIRST EPISODE OF SAHARAN
DUST THIS SEASON WILL FOLLOW THE PASSAGE OF THE WAVE.

MARINE...
WINDS WILL GRADUALLY PICK UP FROM THE EAST OVER THE NEXT 36 HOURS AS
RIDGE REFORMS TO THE NORTH. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO NORTHEAST AHEAD OF
APPROACHING TROPICAL WAVE AND BECOME SQUALLY UNTIL AFTER ITS PASSAGE
WHEN THE WIND WILL SHIFT TO SOUTHEAST.

MIA BB 075/089 078/089 079 4433
PBI BB 073/089 076/089 077 4433

.MIA...NONE.

LUSHINE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
219 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0207 PM    NORTH LAUDERDALE          FL   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/25/01   BROWARD                        AT THE INTERSECTION OF
                                          ROCK ISLAND ROAD AND BAILEY
                                          ROAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	39 min
Jun 25, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	41 min
Jun 25, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	42 min
Jun 25, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.