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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Apr 29, 2013, 4:20 PM EDT for Glades County, Florida. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 29, 2013, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Glades County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 29, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 452 AM EDT MON APR 29 2013 AMZ610-630-650-651-670-671-FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-GMZ656-657-676- 300400- LAKE OKEECHOBEE-BISCAYNE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM JUPITER INLET TO DEERFIELD BEACH, FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF, FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM JUPITER INLET TO DEERFIELD BEACH, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO THE TERRITORIAL WATERS OF THE BAHAMAS-GLADES-HENDRY- INLAND PALM BEACH-METRO PALM BEACH-COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER- INLAND BROWARD-METRO BROWARD-INLAND MIAMI DADE-METRO MIAMI DADE- MAINLAND MONROE-COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD- COASTAL MIAMI DADE-FAR SOUTH MIAMI DADE- COASTAL WATERS FROM CHOKOLOSKEE TO BONITA BEACH, FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM EAST CAPE SABLE TO CHOKOLOSKEE, FL OUT 20 NM- GULF WATERS FROM CHOKOLOSKEE TO BONITA BEACH, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 452 AM EDT MON APR 29 2013 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ATLANTIC BEACHES - STRONG RIPS CONTINUE... ...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT RIP CURRENTS: THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACHES. STRONG RIP CURRENTS WERE OBSERVED ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST YESTERDAY AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY. SWIMMING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. THUNDERSTORMS: SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, MOST FOCUSED ACROSS THE INTERIOR AND EAST COAST METRO AREAS. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP. WIND: WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. HAIL: THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD PRODUCED HAIL OF PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. FLOODING: LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THIS COULD RESULT IN MINOR URBAN FLOODING AT ISOLATED LOCALES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON, CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACHES AT LEAST INTO MID WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI. GREGORIA
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
420 PM EDT MON APR 29 2013
FLZ063-066-292100-
GLADES FL HENDRY FL
420 PM EDT MON APR 29 2013
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL GLADES
COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN HENDRY COUNTY...FOR THE PRIMARY IMPACTS WILL BE
UP TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH...
* UNTIL 500 PM EDT
* AT 418 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ORTONA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL AFFECT...
ORTONA...
PALMDALE...
AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.
THE PRIMARY IMPACTS WILL BE UP TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS
OF 45 TO 55 MPH. THESE WINDS CAN DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS AND
BRANCHES...AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A
SAFE BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
LAT...LON 2712 8122 2699 8106 2698 8108 2692 8107
2693 8110 2689 8111 2686 8109 2660 8143
2666 8151 2695 8142 2704 8132 2704 8128
2708 8127
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 224DEG 14KT 2680 8132
SIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:20 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 24 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 25 min |
| Apr 29, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Monroe | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 63 min | |
| Apr 29, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 31 min |
| Apr 29, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades, Hendry | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Glades | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 5:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Miami-Dade | 112 min |
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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.