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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

October 6, 2016Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Oct 6, 2016, 5:55 AM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 95 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: Oct 6, 2016, 5:55 AM EDT (09:55 UTC)
Expired: Oct 6, 2016, 7:30 AM EDT
In force: 95 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1097 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 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 Oct 6, 5:15 AM EDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 5:15 AM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 6, 5:49 AM EDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 6, 5:55 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 11:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	51 min
Oct 6, 5:00 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		45 min
Oct 6, 5:14 AM EDT	Flood Watch	MFL	Palm Beach	26 hr
Oct 6, 10:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	35 min
Oct 6, 11:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	35 min
Oct 6, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	34 min
Oct 6, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	32 min
Oct 6, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	31 min
Oct 6, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	29 min
Oct 6, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		35 min
Oct 6, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	37 min
Oct 6, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		30 min
Oct 6, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	24 min
Oct 6, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	51 min
Oct 6, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	58 min
Oct 6, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		27 min
Oct 6, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		34 min
Oct 6, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	27 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2016 Every 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.