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Special Weather Statement, NWS Key West, FL

May 23, 2016Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Key West, FL issued this special weather statement at May 23, 2016, 7:05 PM EDT for Miami-Dade 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
May 23, 2016, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Key West, FL

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 2016-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 147 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 2016-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
147 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1618 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 7:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningKEY21 min
May 23, 7:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningKEY66 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016

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.