Alert archive / Florida / Areal Flood Advisories in 2012
Areal Flood Advisory 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this areal flood advisory at Feb 10, 2012, 11:44 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 10, 2012, 11:44 AM EST (16:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2012, 12:45 PM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Feb 10, 9:53 AM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 9:53 AM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 10, 4:41 AM EST, 7 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 441 AM EST FRI FEB 10 2012 AMZ610-630-FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-110045- LAKE OKEECHOBEE-BISCAYNE BAY-GLADES-HENDRY-INLAND PALM BEACH- METRO PALM BEACH-COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER-INLAND BROWARD- METRO BROWARD-INLAND MIAMI DADE-METRO MIAMI DADE-MAINLAND MONROE- COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- FAR SOUTH MIAMI DADE- 441 AM EST FRI FEB 10 2012 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LAKE OKEECHOBEE REGION... ...SLIGHT RISK OF RIP CURRENTS BOTH, WEST AND EAST COASTS... ...COLD TEMPERATURES AND LOW WIND CHILL VALUES SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT RIP CURRENTS: THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG BOTH, THE GULF COAST AND THE ATLANTIC BEACHES. THUNDERSTORMS: ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG ACROSS THE LAKE OKEECHOBEE REGION, INCLUDING GLADES, HENDRY AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN, STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES. WINDS: WIND GUSTS TO 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS, ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE LAKE OKEECHOBEE REGION TODAY. WATERSPOUTS: NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATERSPOUTS ACROSS BISCAYNE BAY AND THE ATLANTIC WATERS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH SOUTH FLORIDA SATURDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE MID TO UPPER 30S ACROSS NORTHWESTERN INTERIOR SECTIONS TO THE UPPER 40S TO LOWER 50S ACROSS THE EAST COAST METRO AREAS ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT. WITH THE WIND INCLUDED, THIS IS FORECAST TO PRODUCE WIND CHILL READINGS IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S ACROSS GLADES AND HENDRY COUNTIES, MID 30S TO AROUND 40 ACROSS THE REST OF THE INTERIOR AND GULF COAST, AND LOWER TO MID 40S TO LOWER 50S ACROSS THE EAST COAST METRO AREAS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. MARINE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME HAZARDOUS ACROSS ALL THE LOCAL WATERS ON SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS NORTHERLY WINDS INCREASE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 11:43 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Palm Beach | 62 min |
| Feb 10, 2:56 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | MFL | Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach | 37 hr |
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.