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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Miami, FL

February 9, 2016Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this wind advisory at Feb 9, 2016, 7:00 AM EST for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 9, 2016, 7:00 AM EST (12:00 UTC)
Expired: Feb 9, 2016, 10:46 AM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

816 
WWUS72 KMFL 091200
NPWMFL

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
700 AM EST TUE FEB 9 2016

...GUSTY WEST NORTHWEST WINDS TODAY...

.TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT BEHIND A COLD FRONT, WHICH MOVED THROUGH
OVERNIGHT, HAS ALREADY PRODUCED A FEW HOURS OF WIND GUSTS TO 35
MPH OR HIGHER. GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT
LEAST THIS MORNING, ESPECIALLY RIGHT ALONG THE COAST. THE ADVISORY
MAY NEED TO BE EXPANDED FURTHER INLAND LATER THIS MORNING. 

FLZ069-092000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.WI.Y.0003.160209T1200Z-160209T2300Z/
COASTAL COLLIER-
INCLUDING THE CITY OF...NAPLES
700 AM EST TUE FEB 9 2016

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON.

* WINDS...FREQUENT WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH OR GREATER.

* IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES WILL BE
  DIFFICULT TO DRIVE...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. LIGHT
  TO MODERATE WEIGHT ITEMS...SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND EMPTY
  TRASH CANS WILL BE BLOWN AROUND. SMALL TREE LIMBS AND NUMEROUS
  PALM FRONDS WILL BE SNAPPED AND KNOCKED DOWN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS
THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

&&

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1 follow-up statement

015 
WWUS72 KMFL 091546
NPWMFL

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1046 AM EST TUE FEB 9 2016

FLZ069-091700-
/O.CAN.KMFL.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-160209T2300Z/
COASTAL COLLIER-
1046 AM EST TUE FEB 9 2016

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY. WIND GUSTS HAVE SUBSIDED THIS MORNING.


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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.