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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2002, 1:27 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 27, 2002, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 39 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 27, 9:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 9:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI 930 AM EDT TUE AUG 27 2002 NOT MUCH CHANGE EXPECTED IN TODAYS WEATHER COMPARED TO YESTERDAY EXCEPT SOUNDINGS SLIGHTLY MORE MOIST AND UNSTABLE. CAPE ROSE TO 3950 WHICH IS ABOUT 1000 HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY AND LIFTED INDICES DROPPED FROM -6.76 TO AT MINUS 8 AT MIAMI. THESE CONDITIONS SHOULD OVERRIDE THE LACK OF DRIER AIR ALOFT WITH A DEW POINT DEPRESSION OF ONLY 16 COMPARED WITH 27 YESTERDY. FORCING MECHANISM ARE MORE FULLY APPARENT TODAY THAN YESTERDAY AS UPPER LOW OVER OHIO VALLEY DROPS SOUTHWARD INTO THE GULF STATES. SEVERAL REPORTS OF WIND GUSTS TO 40 KNOTS YESTERDAY AND SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS OVER BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTY. EXPECT SOMEWHAT OF A REPEAT IN STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON TODAY. NO UPDATES PLANNED IN EITHER PUBLIC OR MARINE PRODUCTS THIS MORNING. .MIA...NONE.
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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.