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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Miami, FL

September 8, 2001Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2001, 1:16 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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: Sep 8, 2001, 1:16 PM EDT (17:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 8, 2001, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 2140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -15 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.

819 
WUUS52 KMFL 081718
SVRMIA
FLC011-081745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
116 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 116 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER 
FORT   LAUDERDALE...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 145 PM EDT...
  LAUDERHILL
  FORT LAUDERDALE AND WILTON MANORS AND OAKLAND PARK

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY 
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND 
ROADWAYS WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITH THIS STORM. 

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DIRECTLY AT 305 229 4522 TO REPORT
SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 2608 8025 2604 8017 2616 8012 2617 8022

.END

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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.