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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

July 28, 2012Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2012, 1:21 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 24 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 28, 2012, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2012, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMIA), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1898 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 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.

199 
WWUS82 KMFL 281721
SPSMFL

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
121 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

FLZ069-070-281745-
COASTAL COLLIER COUNTY FL INLAND COLLIER COUNTY FL 
121 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY 

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GOLDEN GATE...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5
  MPH.

* THE STORM WILL AFFECT...
  RURAL WESTERN COLLIER COUNTY
  AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

THE PRIMARY IMPACTS WILL BE FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY
WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH. LIGHTNING IS THE NUMBER ONE WEATHER RELATED
KILLER IN FLORIDA. TREES AND OPEN SHELTERS OFFER NO PROTECTION. 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 2628 8179 2631 8170 2615 8166 2610 8174
      2615 8182 2626 8183
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 153DEG 5KT 2617 8173

$$

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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 28, 12:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	43 min
Jul 28, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	29 min
Jul 28, 1:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	44 min
Jul 28, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		44 min
Jul 28, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Hendry	27 min
Jul 28, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Hendry	49 min
Jul 28, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Glades, Hendry	54 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.