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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Miami, FL

May 19, 2003Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2003, 3:13 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 17 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 19, 2003, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2003, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Broward County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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 2003-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1472 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 2003-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 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
1472 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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.

000 
WUUS52 KMFL 191913
SVRMIA
FLC011-191930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
315 PM EDT MON MAY 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 311 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OVER NORTH CENTRAL BROWARD
  COUNTY WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS NEAR U S 27 JUST SOUTH OF THE BROWARD AND PALM 
BEACH COUNTY LINE.

LAT...LON 2621 8045 2632 8047 2630 8062 2618 8058

.END

BRABANDER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward24 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.