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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Miami, FL

July 23, 2001Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2001, 10:36 AM EDT for Broward County, Palm Beach 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: Jul 23, 2001, 10:36 AM EDT (14:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2001, 11:15 AM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Broward County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 2135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 231437 CCA
SVRMIA

FLC011-099-231515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED FOR SOUTHEAST PALM BEACH COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1036 AM EDT MON JUL 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
  SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1115 AM EDT

* AT 1036 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OVER DEERFIELD BEACH...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE 
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER INj A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL 
THE STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 2631 8028 2621 8011 2663 7974 2678 7999

.END

WARNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier	60 min
Jul 23, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier	45 min
Jul 23, 11:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier	53 min
Jul 23, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier	31 min
Jul 23, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	38 min
Jul 23, 3:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward	28 min
Jul 23, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	47 min
Jul 23, 3:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	62 min
Jul 23, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	65 min
Jul 23, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	57 min
Jul 23, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	65 min
Jul 23, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	53 min

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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.