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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

July 24, 2016Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 24, 2016, 1:48 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 42 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
Jul 24, 2016, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2016, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2016-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 817 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2016-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
817 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jul 23, 7:18 PM EDT, 18 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 7:18 PM EDT, 18 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 8:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade46 min
Jul 23, 8:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward46 min
Jul 23, 8:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMFLMiami-Dade2 hr
Jul 23, 9:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade48 min
Jul 23, 9:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward42 min
Jul 24, 2:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMonroe42 min
Jul 24, 2:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLGlades47 min
Jul 24, 2:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLHendry45 min
Jul 24, 2:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade53 min
Jul 24, 3:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLGlades48 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.