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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Miami, FL

May 31, 2002Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 4:43 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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: May 31, 2002, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 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), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 567 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

221 
WUUS52 KMFL 312043
SVRMIA
FLC099-312115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
442 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 442 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OVER SOUTH BAY...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SOUTH BAY BY 440 PM EDT
  BELLE GLADE BY 445 PM EDT
  OKEELANTA BY 455 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.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 2681 8064 2678 8084 2647 8088 2641 8066

.END

PFOST

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		30 min
May 31, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	29 min
May 31, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	26 min
May 31, 5:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	32 min
May 31, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	31 min
May 31, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	28 min
May 31, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Glades	31 min
May 31, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.