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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL

March 26, 2002Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2002, 3:14 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 26, 2002, 3:14 PM EST (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2002, 4:00 PM EST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Palm Beach County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 12:00Z on 2002-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 975 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
975 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMFL 262014
SVRMIA
FLC099-262100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
312 PM EST TUE MAR 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 400 PM EST

* AT 312 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HOLEY LAND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT          
  AREA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 2645 8086 2633 8071 2663 8032 2680 8051

.END

RADER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 3:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.