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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

June 12, 2008Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2008, 9:49 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 12, 2008, 9:49 AM EDT (13:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2008, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2027 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -44 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.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 12, 7:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 7:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 8:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:49 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 6:57 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		33 min
Jun 12, 9:01 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		29 min
Jun 12, 11:12 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		51 min
Jun 12, 11:18 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		57 min
Jun 12, 11:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	32 min
Jun 12, 12:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	46 min
Jun 12, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	33 min
Jun 12, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Monroe	43 min
Jun 12, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	48 min
Jun 12, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	33 min
Jun 12, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	32 min
Jun 12, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	26 min
Jun 12, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		67 min
Jun 12, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	37 min
Jun 12, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		55 min
Jun 12, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	46 min
Jun 12, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	60 min
Jun 12, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Monroe	59 min
Jun 12, 5:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Collier	119 min
Jun 12, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		54 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.