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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Miami, FL

January 12, 2011Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this fire weather watch at Jan 12, 2011, 2:29 PM EST for Collier County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 13, 2011, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 12, 2011, 2:29 PM EST (19:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 13, 2011, 12:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 13, 2011, 2:09 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

County Collier County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-01-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-01-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -120 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 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 Jan 12, 12:25 PM EST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 12:25 PM EST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 12, 2:26 AM ESTRed Flag WarningMFLBroward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach17 hr
Jan 12, 2:48 AM ESTFreeze WarningMFLCollier, Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach30 hr
Jan 12, 3:06 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryMFLBroward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more30 hr

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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.