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Fire Weather Watch 13, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this fire weather watch at Apr 14, 2008, 3:57 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 15, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2008, 3:57 AM EDT (07:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2008, 4:05 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this fire weather watch went out at Apr 13, 2:51 PM EDT, 13 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 2:51 PM EDT, 13 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 6:58 PM EDT, 8 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 658 PM EDT SUN APR 13 2008 FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-141000- GLADES-HENDRY-INLAND PALM BEACH-METRO PALM BEACH-COASTAL COLLIER- INLAND COLLIER-INLAND BROWARD-METRO BROWARD-INLAND MIAMI DADE- METRO MIAMI DADE-MAINLAND MONROE-COASTAL PALM BEACH- COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE-FAR SOUTH MIAMI DADE- 658 PM EDT SUN APR 13 2008 ...MUCH COOLER WEATHER CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT THROUGH MID WEEK... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MUCH COOLER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MID WEEK AS NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND THE DEPARTING COLD FRONT DRIVE COOLER AIR SOUTHWARD INTO THE LOCAL AREA. LOW TEMPERATURES BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY MORNING ARE FORECAST TO FALL INTO THE 40S OVER INTERIOR AREAS TO THE 50S ALONG THE COASTS. A NORTHERLY WIND FLOW WILL ALSO RESULT IN WORSENING MARINE CONDITIONS, ESPECIALLY IN THE GULF STREAM, THROUGH MIDWEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI. GREGORIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 3:57 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach | 15 hr |
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.