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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Dec 11, 2012, 9:15 AM EST for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
- Dec 11, 2012, 9:15 AM EST (14:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 11, 2012, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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 Dec 11, 6:39 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 11, 6:39 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Dec 11, 6:29 AM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 11:40 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Collier | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 11:45 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 60 min | |
| Dec 11, 12:02 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 43 min |
| Dec 11, 12:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 41 min |
| Dec 11, 1:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Monroe | 48 min |
| Dec 11, 1:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 29 min |
| Dec 11, 1:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 28 min |
| Dec 11, 1:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 31 min |
| Dec 11, 2:09 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Miami-Dade | 51 min |
| Dec 11, 3:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 48 min |
| Dec 11, 3:47 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 58 min | |
| Dec 11, 4:52 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Collier | 113 min |
| Dec 11, 6:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 46 min |
| Dec 11, 8:53 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Collier | 112 min |
| Dec 11, 9:13 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 32 min | |
| Dec 11, 9:40 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 95 min | |
| Dec 11, 10:06 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 39 min |
| Dec 11, 6:08 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Palm Beach | 112 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.