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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Miami, FL

September 29, 2001Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 2001, 2:10 AM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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
Sep 29, 2001, 2:10 AM EDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 2001, 2:45 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 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 00:00Z on 2001-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 222 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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 Sep 28, 9:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 9:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
900 PM EDT FRI SEP 28 2001

00Z OBSERVATIONS INDICATE 1005 MB SURFACE LOW NEAR 24N 84W. THIS IS
ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN THE SLOWER 12Z ETA MODEL FORECAST AND THE
FASTER 18Z AVN FORECAST.  AFTER CONSULTATION WITH TPC...BELIEVE THAT
SURFACE LOW DEVELOPMENT WILL BE RELATIVELY SLOW AND EASTWARD MOTION
NOT NEARLY AS FAST AS AVIATION WHICH PUTS 1000 MB LOW NEAR WEST PALM
BEACH AT 12Z SATURDAY.

AS NOTED BY SPC...THUNDERSTORM CELLS OVER FLORIDA STRAITS AND
FLORIDA BAY HAVE BEEN SHOWING TENDENCY TO ROTATE THIS EVENING. WATER
VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS SIGNIFICANT DIGGING OF MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE OVER
CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO ENHANCING UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE OVER EASTERN
GULF. WILL MONITOR SITUATION CLOSELY FOR ANY POSSIBLE TORNADIC
ACTIVITY TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE SOUTHWEST COAST.

HEAVIEST RAIN TONIGHT WILL LIKELY ALSO BE ALONG THE SOUTHWEST
COAST...BUT SHOULD INCREASE OVER ENTIRE SOUTH FLORIDA PENINSULA ON
SATURDAY. FLOOD WATCH WILL THEREFORE BE CONTINUED THROUGH
SATURDAY...BUT MOST LIKELY WILL END BY SATURDAY NIGHT AS DRYER AIR
ADVECTS INTO THE AREA.

.MIA....FLOOD WATCH ALL OF SOUTH FLORIDA TONIGHT-SATURDAY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 29, 1:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade, Monroe60 min
Sep 29, 1:45 AM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade60 min
Sep 29, 2:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade56 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.