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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 2003, 5:09 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 29, 2003, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMFL 292109 SVRMIA FLC011-292145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 507 PM EDT MON SEP 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 507 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OVER NORTH MIAMI BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 545 PM EDT... PEMBROKE PARK HALLANDALE BEACH HOLLYWOOD DANIA BEACH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 2592 8031 2582 8015 2609 7989 2620 8007 $$ HANDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 10:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Collier | 100 min |
| Sep 29, 10:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 62 min | |
| Sep 29, 11:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 65 min | |
| Sep 29, 11:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Collier | 3 hr |
| Sep 29, 3:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Collier | 3 hr |
| Sep 29, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 117 min | |
| Sep 29, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 36 min |
| Sep 29, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 6:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Collier | 3 hr |
| Sep 29, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 85 min | |
| Sep 29, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 38 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.