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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

June 24, 2012Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2012, 5:47 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 24, 2012, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 3139 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 24, 4:53 PM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 4:53 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 12:36 PM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 3:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 5:38 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:47 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
547 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012

FLZ067-068-168-242215-
COASTAL PALM BEACH COUNTY FL INLAND PALM BEACH COUNTY FL METRO PALM
BEACH COUNTY FL
547 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 545 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOYNTON BEACH...AND MOVING
  NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND
  GUSTS AND IS DEVELOPING IN AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES.

* THE STORM WILL AFFECT...
  GREENACRES CITY...
  GOLDEN LAKES...
  HAVERHILL...
  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.

ALSO...THIS THUNDERSTORM IS DEVELOPING IN AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE
FOR FUNNEL CLOUDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2651 8008 2651 8027 2685 8029 2684 8004
      2680 8003 2669 8003
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 185DEG 20KT 2657 8014

GREGORIA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 8:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	27 min
Jun 23, 8:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		58 min
Jun 23, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	27 min
Jun 23, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		47 min
Jun 24, 2:18 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		57 min
Jun 24, 3:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		62 min
Jun 24, 5:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		60 min
Jun 24, 6:44 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		61 min
Jun 24, 7:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	32 min
Jun 24, 7:40 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		65 min
Jun 24, 7:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	30 min
Jun 24, 8:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	31 min
Jun 24, 8:41 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		64 min
Jun 24, 8:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	48 min
Jun 24, 9:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		35 min
Jun 24, 9:48 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		57 min
Jun 24, 10:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	35 min
Jun 24, 10:44 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		61 min
Jun 24, 10:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	27 min
Jun 24, 10:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	52 min
Jun 24, 10:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	46 min
Jun 24, 11:02 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	28 min
Jun 24, 11:12 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		33 min
Jun 24, 11:27 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	33 min
Jun 24, 11:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	32 min
Jun 24, 11:31 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier	29 min
Jun 24, 11:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades	35 min
Jun 24, 11:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	26 min
Jun 24, 11:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier	34 min
Jun 24, 12:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	29 min
Jun 24, 12:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades	23 min
Jun 24, 12:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier	33 min
Jun 24, 12:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		115 min
Jun 24, 12:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	25 min
Jun 24, 12:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Glades, Hendry	53 min
Jun 24, 12:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	34 min
Jun 24, 12:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	32 min
Jun 24, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	31 min
Jun 24, 12:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	33 min
Jun 24, 12:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	32 min
Jun 24, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	29 min
Jun 24, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	40 min
Jun 24, 1:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	35 min
Jun 24, 1:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	4 hr
Jun 24, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	23 min
Jun 24, 1:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades	33 min
Jun 24, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		32 min
Jun 24, 1:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades	25 min
Jun 24, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		66 min
Jun 24, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	34 min
Jun 24, 2:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	32 min
Jun 24, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	27 min
Jun 24, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Martin	28 min
Jun 24, 2:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	47 min
Jun 24, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
Jun 24, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		65 min
Jun 24, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	48 min
Jun 24, 3:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	62 min
Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		89 min
Jun 24, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	36 min
Jun 24, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		64 min
Jun 24, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		93 min
Jun 24, 6:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	26 min
Jun 24, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		66 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.