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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Miami, FL

May 31, 2002Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 5:44 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 3 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.

316 
WUUS52 KMFL 312144
SVRMIA
FLC086-312215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OVER FIU SOUTH CAMPUS...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  VIRGINIA GARDENS BY 545 PM EDT
  MIAMI SPRINGS BY 550 PM EDT
  MIAMI LAKES BY 555 PM EDT
  OPA-LOCKA BY 600 PM EDT

HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS
ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL
THE STORM PASSES.

A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EARLIER BUT
NO CONFIRMED DAMAGE REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE PRIMARY THREAT 
WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPEARS TO BE STRONG WIND GUSTS IN 
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN.

LAT...LON 2583 8048 2568 8037 2587 8002 2597 8019

.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, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	32 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, 5:47 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

Nearby

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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.