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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

July 5, 2012Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2012, 1:56 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 5, 2012, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 2325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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.

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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 Jul 5, 1:38 PM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 1:38 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 4:58 AM EDT, 8 hours 58 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
458 AM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

AMZ610-630-650-651-670-671-FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-GMZ656-657-676-
060000-
LAKE OKEECHOBEE-BISCAYNE BAY-
COASTAL WATERS FROM JUPITER INLET TO DEERFIELD BEACH, FL OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF, FL OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM JUPITER INLET TO DEERFIELD BEACH, FL EXTENDING FROM
20 NM TO 60 NM-
WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 NM
TO THE TERRITORIAL WATERS OF THE BAHAMAS-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-
COASTAL WATERS FROM CHOKOLOSKEE TO BONITA BEACH, FL OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM EAST CAPE SABLE TO CHOKOLOSKEE, FL OUT 20 NM-
GULF WATERS FROM CHOKOLOSKEE TO BONITA BEACH, FL EXTENDING FROM
20 TO 60 NM-
458 AM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

...PATCHY SMOKE ALL AREAS THIS MORNING FROM INDEPENDENCE'S DAY FIREWORKS...
...SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS INTERIOR AND WEST...
...SLIGHT RISK OF RIP CURRENTS EAST COAST BEACHES TODAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

RIP CURRENTS: EAST WINDS AT AROUND 10 MPH WILL RESULT IN A
SLIGHT RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACHES TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
ACROSS INLAND PORTIONS AND THE WEST COAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
THE PRIMARY IMPACTS WILL BE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES, LOCALLY
HEAVY DOWNPOURS, AND GUSTY WINDS.

WIND: A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 50 MPH
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

VISIBILITY: LIGHT TO CALM WINDS WILL MAKE IT HARD FOR THE SMOKE
FROM INDEPENDENCE'S DAY FIREWORKS TO DISSIPATE OVER SOUTH FLORIDA
UNTIL LATER THIS MORNING. VISIBILITIES IN THE SMOKE COULD FALL DOWN TO 1
MILE AT TIMES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH
DAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL, OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING
STRIKES, AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE.

THE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE AT THE EAST COAST BEACHES
THROUGH MUCH OF THIS PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:56 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
156 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

FLZ067-051830-
INLAND PALM BEACH COUNTY FL
156 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 151 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES
  EAST OF CANAL POINT TO 4 MILES NORTH OF BELLE GLADE...AND MOVING
  WEST AT 5 MPH.

* THE LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT...
  RURAL NORTHERN PALM BEACH COUNTY
  AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

THE MAIN IMPACT WILL BE FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING. 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 2693 8031 2634 8048 2641 8077 2687 8064
      2689 8062 2692 8062 2696 8061 2696 8044
TIME...MOT...LOC 1755Z 258DEG 3KT 2689 8053 2675 8065

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		61 min
Jul 5, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	37 min
Jul 5, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Monroe	34 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.