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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Miami, FL

August 3, 2002Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2002, 4:24 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 51 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
Aug 3, 2002, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 2002-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1897 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 2002-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1897 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 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.

224 
WUUS52 KMFL 032024
SVRMIA
FLC099-032115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
422 PM EDT SAT AUG 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 422 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER FAU NORTH                 
  CAMPUS...MOVING   NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONAL VERY HEAVY 
  THUNDERSTORMS ARE JUST TO THE SOUTHWEST BETWEEN THE FAU NORTH
  CAMPUS AND THE ACERAGE. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING
  ISSUED AT 352 PM EDT.

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.

LAT...LON 2695 8029 2667 8028 2668 8005 2694 8011

.END

COLIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach38 min
Aug 3, 4:43 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.