Alert archive / Florida / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2012, 2:21 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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 22, 2012, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 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 18:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
705 WWUS82 KMFL 221821 SPSMFL SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 221 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012 FLZ067-071-072-221900- INLAND BROWARD COUNTY FL INLAND PALM BEACH COUNTY FL METRO BROWARD COUNTY FL 221 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... CENTRAL BROWARD COUNTY EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 218 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAWGRASS MILLS MALL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE STORM WILL AFFECT... TAMARAC... CORAL SPRINGS... AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. THE PRIMARY IMPACTS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH. THESE WINDS CAN DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BRANCHES...AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. LAT...LON 2634 8026 2620 8020 2612 8043 2625 8047 TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 243DEG 10KT 2621 8037 $$ RIVERA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Miami-Dade | 30 min |
| May 22, 9:32 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 35 min | |
| May 22, 12:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 56 min | |
| May 22, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 34 min |
| May 22, 1:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Miami-Dade | 114 min |
| May 22, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 12 min |
| May 22, 2:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 111 min |
| May 22, 2:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Broward | 111 min |
| May 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 35 min |
| May 22, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Miami-Dade | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Miami-Dade | 2 hr |
| May 22, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Miami-Dade | 31 min |
| May 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Miami-Dade | 23 min |
| May 22, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 3 hr |
| May 22, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Miami-Dade | 53 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.