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Coastal Flood Statement 24, NWS Miami, FL

May 19, 2009Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this coastal flood statement at May 19, 2009, 3:52 AM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2009, 3:52 AM EDT (07:52 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2009, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 1435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at May 19, 1:32 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 1:32 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 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
May 18, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	54 min
May 18, 8:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	2 hr
May 18, 9:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		81 min
May 18, 9:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		81 min
May 18, 9:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	117 min
May 18, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		95 min
May 18, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		95 min
May 18, 11:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		54 min
May 19, 12:00 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
May 19, 2:01 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		52 min
May 19, 3:36 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MFL		24 hr
May 19, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	58 min
May 19, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	56 min
May 19, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	60 min
May 19, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	2 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Florida, 2009 Every coastal flood statement in 2009

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.