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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

May 14, 2011Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2011, 6:44 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 46 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: May 14, 2011, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2011, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1364 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 5:32 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	14 hr
May 14, 11:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	29 min
May 14, 1:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	41 min
May 14, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	49 min
May 14, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Hendry	49 min
May 14, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		65 min
May 14, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	40 min
May 14, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	36 min
May 14, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	42 min
May 14, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	28 min
May 14, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	38 min
May 14, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	45 min
May 14, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	42 min
May 14, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		112 min
May 14, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		53 min
May 14, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	50 min
May 14, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	16 min
May 14, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	57 min
May 14, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	35 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.