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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 43
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 29, 2014, 3:42 PM EDT for 10 counties in Florida. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2014, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2014, 9:29 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Broward County, FL, Collier County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Martin County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Okeechobee, Osceola, Saint Lucie | 41 min |
| Mar 29, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 33 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 5:58 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gilchrist, Gulf and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 29, 8:10 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Citrus, Flagler, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake, Levy and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 29, 9:43 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hardee and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Hardee and 15 more | 97 min |
| Mar 29, 2:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 16 more | 95 min |
| Mar 29, 7:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 2 hr |
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.