Alert archive / Florida / Tropical Storm Warnings in 2012
Tropical Storm Warning 1018, NWS NHC
NWS NHC issued this tropical storm warning at Oct 24, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT for 5 counties in Florida. It was in force for 5 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2012, 5:02 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 days
- Issued by
- NWS NHC
Counties Broward County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS NHC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 5:00 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | NHC | Broward, Flagler, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Nassau, Palm Beach and 1 more | 4 days |
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.