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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

August 27, 2012Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2012, 1:19 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 56 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 27, 2012, 1:19 AM EDT (05:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2012, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 2399 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Aug 27, 12:31 AM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 12:31 AM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 27, 12:31 AM EDT, 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 26, 11:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 26, 11:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 26, 11:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 27, 12:20 AM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 27, 12:38 AM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 27, 1:19 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
119 AM EDT MON AUG 27 2012

FLZ067-068-072-168-172-270615-
COASTAL BROWARD COUNTY FL COASTAL PALM BEACH COUNTY FL INLAND PALM
BEACH COUNTY FL METRO BROWARD COUNTY FL METRO PALM BEACH COUNTY FL
119 AM EDT MON AUG 27 2012

...STRONG RAINBAND WITH SEVERE WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH MOVING
ONSHORE THE NORTHEASTERN BROWARD AND SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COAST...

* UNTIL 215 AM EDT

* AT 115 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  STRONG RAINBAND MOVING ONSHORE THE NORTHEASTERN BROWARD AND SOUTHEAST
  PALM BEACH COAST...MOVING  NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH. SEVERE WINDS OF
  60 TO 70 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THIS RAINBAND AS IT MOVES ONSHORE.

* THE STRONG WINDS WILL AFFECT...
  BOCA RATON...
  DELRAY BEACH...
  VILLAGE OF GOLF...
  ABERDEEN...
  FLORIDA GARDENS...
  WELLINGTON...
  ROYAL PALM BEACH...
  AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL...WHICH CAN OCCASIONALLY TOUCH
DOWN AND PRODUCE TORNADOES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM EDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2655 8004 2640 8006 2626 8007 2620 8009
      2669 8043 2681 8008 2669 8002 2663 8003
      2660 8004 2659 8003 2655 8003
TIME...MOT...LOC 0516Z 147DEG 42KT 2642 8008

GREGORIA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	44 min
Aug 26, 8:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	112 min
Aug 26, 9:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	23 min
Aug 26, 9:10 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	MFL	Glades	6 days
Aug 26, 9:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	22 min
Aug 26, 9:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	2 hr
Aug 26, 9:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	37 min
Aug 26, 9:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	7 min
Aug 26, 10:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	62 min
Aug 26, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		118 min
Aug 26, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	57 min
Aug 26, 10:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	3 hr
Aug 26, 11:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	54 min
Aug 26, 11:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	2 hr
Aug 27, 12:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	114 min
Aug 27, 12:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
Aug 27, 12:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	52 min
Aug 27, 1:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	9 hr
Aug 27, 1:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades, Palm Beach	52 min
Aug 27, 2:08 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		112 min
Aug 27, 2:10 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	110 min
Aug 27, 5:49 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MFL		38 hr
Aug 27, 5:49 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	MFL	Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more	15 hr
Aug 27, 6:23 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	MFL	Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	19 hr
Aug 27, 6:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	2 hr
Aug 27, 6:36 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		24 min
Aug 27, 6:38 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
Aug 27, 8:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	53 min
Aug 27, 8:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Glades, Palm Beach	42 min
Aug 27, 8:38 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		52 min
Aug 27, 9:21 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	114 min
Aug 27, 9:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	23 min
Aug 27, 9:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	18 min
Aug 27, 11:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	3 hr
Aug 27, 11:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	65 min
Aug 27, 11:56 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
Aug 27, 12:04 PM EDT	Gale Warning	MFL		9 hr
Aug 27, 12:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	114 min
Aug 27, 12:24 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	MFL	Collier	13 hr
Aug 27, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	25 min
Aug 27, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	37 min
Aug 27, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	62 min
Aug 27, 1:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	3 hr
Aug 27, 1:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	118 min
Aug 27, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		91 min
Aug 27, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	58 min
Aug 27, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	12 min
Aug 27, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	29 min
Aug 27, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		116 min
Aug 27, 4:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	6 hr
Aug 27, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		94 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.