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Flood Watch 3, NWS Miami, FL

May 29, 2013Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this flood watch at May 29, 2013, 3:43 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2013, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2013, 10:13 AM EDT
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Flood severity
None

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 39 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2013-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1190 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2013-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at May 29, 2:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 10:12 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFL6 hr
May 29, 7:07 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMFLPalm Beach113 min
May 29, 8:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMFLPalm Beach3 hr
May 29, 2:29 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFL42 hr
May 29, 4:35 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMFLMiami-Dade115 min
May 29, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward46 min
May 29, 5:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL111 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in Florida, 2013Every flood watch in 2013

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.