Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2001, 8:44 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 29, 2001, 8:44 PM EST (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2001, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 9:05 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Kendall, FL | Hail the size of nickels, quarters and golf balls were reported in several locations. |
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, 1.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 16.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.