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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2003, 1:41 PM EST for Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 64 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
- Mar 16, 2003, 1:41 PM EST (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2003, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Broward County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMFL 161841 SVRMIA FLC011-099-161945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 140 PM EST SUN MAR 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 245 PM EST * AT 140 PM EST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DIME SIZE HAIL OVER SUNRISE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 245 PM EST... MARGATE AND CORAL SPRINGS AND NORTH LAUDERDALE CORAL SPRINGS AND COCONUT CREEK PARKLAND AND LIGHTHOUSE POINT DEERFIELD BEACH BOCA WEST AND FAU SOUTH CAMPUS & REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT 305 229 4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 2617 8040 2609 8022 2658 7990 2670 8018 .END LUSHINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:25 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 65 min | |
| Mar 15, 9:23 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 97 min | |
| Mar 16, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 52 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.