Alert archive / Florida / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 3, NWS Miami, FL
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 10:12 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFL | 6 hr | |
| May 29, 7:07 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Palm Beach | 113 min |
| May 29, 8:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 3 hr |
| May 29, 2:29 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFL | 42 hr | |
| May 29, 4:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Miami-Dade | 115 min |
| May 29, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 111 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.