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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Jan 11, 2012, 9:42 AM EST for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
- Jan 11, 2012, 9:42 AM EST (14:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2012, 10:15 AM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Jan 11, 9:14 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 9:14 AM EST, 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 327 AM EST WED JAN 11 2012 FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-112330- 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- 327 AM EST WED JAN 11 2012 ...A FEW STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE LAKE OKEECHOBEE REGION AND GULF COAST TODAY... ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS GULF BEACHES... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR GULF WATERS... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT RIP CURRENTS: SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH COMBINED WITH WAVE ACTION WILL RESULT IN A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR THE GULF BEACHES. THUNDERSTORMS: ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE LAKE OKEECHOBEE REGION AND THE GULF COAST...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AROUND 40 MPH. WIND: A FEW STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH. THERE IS ALSO A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR THE GULF WATERS FOR SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 20 KNOTS .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED, HOWEVER INDIVIDUAL SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT HIGH WIND, HAIL AND FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 11, 9:42 AM EST, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 4:05 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | MFL | 11 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.