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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2012, 5:58 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 25, 2012, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2012, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 1801 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 25, 2:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 25, 1:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 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 |
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| Aug 24, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 67 min | |
| Aug 24, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 9:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 56 min | |
| Aug 24, 10:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 10:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 10:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 117 min | |
| Aug 24, 10:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 11:32 PM EDT | Hurricane Watch | MFL | Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 36 hr |
| Aug 24, 11:32 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | MFL | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more | 60 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:10 AM EDT | Hurricane Warning | MFL | Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 36 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 76 min |
| Aug 25, 5:45 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 27 min | |
| Aug 25, 7:03 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 57 min | |
| Aug 25, 7:27 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 63 min | |
| Aug 25, 8:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 2:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 58 min | |
| Aug 25, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 28 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.