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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS EYW
NWS EYW issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2005, 3:36 PM EDT for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2005, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2005, 4:03 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS EYW
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS EYW wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 8, 11:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 11:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 7:00 AM EDT, 8 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 700 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 FLZ076-077-078-GMZ031-032-033-052-053-054-072-073-074-075-091000- MONROE UPPER KEYS-MONROE MIDDLE KEYS-MONROE LOWER KEYS-FLORIDA BAY-GULF SIDE OF THE LOWER KEYS OUT 20 NM- EAST CAPE SABLE TO CHOKOLOSKEE 20 TO 60 NM OUT- OCEAN REEF TO CRAIG KEY OUT 20 NM- CRAIG KEY TO WEST END OF 7 MILE BRIDGE OUT 20 NM- WEST END OF 7 MILE BRIDGE TO KEY WEST OUT 20 NM- OCEAN REEF TO CRAIG KEY 20 TO 60 NM OUT- CRAIG KEY TO WEST END OF 7 MILE BRIDGE 20 TO 60 NM OUT- WEST END OF 7 MILE BRIDGE TO KEY WEST 20 TO 60 NM OUT- KEY WEST TO 20 NM WEST OF DRY TORTUGAS OUT 60 NM- 700 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 ...HURRICANE WARNING IN EFFECT LOWER KEYS AND ADJACENT WATERS... ...TROPICAL STORM WARNING MIDDLE/UPPER KEYS AND ADJACENT WATERS... ...HURRICANE WATCH IN EFFECT MIDDLE/UPPER KEYS AND ADJACENT WATERS... ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT ALL FLORIDA KEYS... ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONSULT THE LATEST ADVISORIES FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER CONCERNING HURRICANE DENNIS. IN ADDITION...REFER TO HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENTS ISSUED BY YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST FOR DETAILED LOCAL INFORMATION AND LOCAL IMPACTS. ...THUNDERSTORM HAZARDS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AS THE STRONG OUTER SPIRAL RAINBANDS OF HURRICANE DENNIS APPROACH THE KEYS FROM THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST. ISOLATED STRONG WATERSPOUTS AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THESE RAINBANDS. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING STRIKES. ...WIND AND SEA HAZARDS... BREEZES WILL FRESHEN TO GALES BY THIS EVENING AS HURRICANE DENNIS APPROACHES THE AREA. SEAS WILL BUILD RAPIDLY TODAY AND TONIGHT...AS HIGH AS 15 TO 20 FEET IN THE STRAITS OF FLORIDA. SUSTAINED WINDS ARE LIKELY TO EXCEED 40 MPH...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 70 MPH ACROSS THE LOWER KEYS. SUSTAINED WINDS ARE LIKELY TO EXCEED 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH ACROSS THE MIDDLE AND UPPER KEYS. SUSTAINED WINDS ARE LIKELY TO EXCEED HURRICANE FORCE IN THE DRY TORTUGAS. ...STORM SURGE HAZARDS... A STORM SURGE OF 3 TO 6 FEET IS EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST VALUES ALONG SOUTH AND EAST FACING SHORES OF THE LOWER KEYS. ...FLOOD HAZARDS... STORM RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF THE KEYS...WITH UP TO 10 INCHES IN PORTIONS OF THE LOWER KEYS. TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL WORSEN STORM SURGE FLOODING...MAKING DRIVING AND GENERAL MOVING ABOUT UNSAFE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SATURDAY...HURRICANE DENNIS IS EXPECTED TO PASS JUST WEST OF THE FLORIDA KEYS. TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS WILL LIKELY AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE KEYS SATURDAY MORNING...WITH SLACKENING WINDS DURING THE DAY. THE COMBINATION OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STORM SURGE FLOODING WILL MAKE DRIVING AND MOVING ABOUT VERY HAZARDOUS ON SATURDAY. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ISOLATED STRONG WATERSPOUTS AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE TRAILING RAINBANDS OF DEPARTING HURRICANE DENNIS. SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE FLORIDA KEYS AND SURROUNDING WATERS. THE PRIMARY THUNDERSTORM HAZARDS WILL BE DEADLY CLOUD TO SURFACE LIGHTNING STRIKES AND GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT FUNNEL CLOUDS...WATERSPOUTS... TORNADOES...STORM SURGE FLOODING AND OCEAN WATER LEVELS...AND WIND DAMAGE AND INSTRUMENT-RECORDED WIND GUSTS. KBK
In the hours before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 301 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 FLZ076>078-082100- MONROE LOWER KEYS-MONROE MIDDLE KEYS-MONROE UPPER KEYS- 301 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 ...CONDITIONS WILL AGAIN DETERIORATE AS DENNIS APPROACHES... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BECOME LESS NUMEROUS OVER THE FLORIDA STRAITS. HOWEVER...SOME ACTIVITY WILL PERSIST...MOVING WESTWARD AT AROUND 45 MPH OVER THE STRAITS AND ACROSS THE KEYS. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO TROPICAL STORM FORCE...HEAVY RAIN...AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES. ALTHOUGH THE COVERAGE OF THIS ACTIVITY HAS DECREASED FOR A WHILE...IT WILL INCREASE AGAIN LATER THIS EVENING AS HURRICANE DENNIS APPROACHES THE AREA. ALSO...EVEN OUTSIDE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS...WIND SPEEDS WILL CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY INCREASE TODAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE LOWER KEYS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE RAIN BANDS OF HURRICANE DENNIS. A TORNADO WATCH WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED FOR PART OR ALL OF THE KEYS LATER TODAY. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM YOUR KEY WEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS EYW issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EYW | Monroe | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 8:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EYW | Monroe | 68 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.