Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2015, 4:33 PM EDT for Glades County, Hendry County, Florida. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2015, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2015, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Glades County, FL, Hendry County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:40 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Ortona, FL |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
058 WUUS52 KMFL 102033 SVRMFL FLC043-051-102115- /O.NEW.KMFL.SV.W.0013.150510T2033Z-150510T2115Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 433 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GLADES COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA... NORTH CENTRAL HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA... * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 432 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER ORTONA...OR 8 MILES EAST OF LABELLE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LABELLE...PALMDALE...ORTONA AND PORT LA BELLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 2679 8118 2669 8132 2681 8149 2698 8128 TIME...MOT...LOC 2032Z 135DEG 2KT 2677 8131 $$ KM
1 follow-up statement
767
WWUS52 KMFL 102112
SVSMFL
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
512 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2015
FLC043-051-102122-
/O.EXP.KMFL.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-150510T2115Z/
GLADES FL-HENDRY FL-
512 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2015
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN GLADES AND NORTH
CENTRAL HENDRY COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM EDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 2679 8118 2669 8132 2681 8149 2698 8128
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 135DEG 2KT 2677 8131
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 45 min |
| May 9, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 20 min |
| May 9, 8:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 50 min | |
| May 9, 9:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 53 min | |
| May 10, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 39 min |
| May 10, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Glades | 38 min |
| May 10, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 47 min |
| May 10, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 43 min |
| May 10, 4:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Glades | 3 hr |
| May 10, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Monroe | 49 min |
| May 10, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 44 min |
| May 10, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 48 min |
| May 10, 4:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Glades | 3 hr |
| May 10, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 42 min |
| May 10, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 67 min |
| May 10, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 58 min |
| May 10, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Collier | 68 min |
| May 10, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 43 min |
| May 10, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 40 min | |
| May 10, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 40 min |
| May 10, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Hendry | 46 min |
| May 10, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Glades | 55 min |
| May 10, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 33 min | |
| May 10, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 54 min | |
| May 10, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 30 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.