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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

August 4, 2011Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2011, 3:49 PM 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
Aug 4, 2011, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2011, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2816 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2816 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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.

570 
WWUS82 KMFL 041949
SPSMFL

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
349 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2011

FLZ067-042015-
INLAND PALM BEACH COUNTY FL 
349 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY 

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 346 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF NORTH PALM BEACH GENERAL AIRPORT TO 5 MILES WEST OF
  WHISPER WALK. THESE STORMS WERE WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT...
  WELLINGTON...
  AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

THE MAIN IMPACT WILL BE FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING ALONG WITH 
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. LIGHTNING IS THE NUMBER ONE WEATHER RELATED 
KILLER IN FLORIDA. TREES AND OPEN SHELTERS OFFER NO PROTECTION. SEEK 
SHELTER IN A SAFE BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 2685 8021 2663 8020 2663 8038 2686 8036
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 270DEG 0KT 2692 8027 2642 8027

$$
KOB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 8:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLPalm Beach29 min

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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.