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Areal Flood Warning 5, NWS Miami, FL

June 7, 2017Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this areal flood warning at Jun 7, 2017, 4:11 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2017, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2017, 9:02 PM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 1468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 7, 3:41 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:41 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 4:05 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:15 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 3:22 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 3:27 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 7, 4:02 PM EDT, 9 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
Jun 6, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		95 min
Jun 6, 8:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	6 hr
Jun 6, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		91 min
Jun 6, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		58 min
Jun 6, 8:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Hendry	50 min
Jun 6, 10:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	43 min
Jun 6, 10:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		48 min
Jun 7, 1:47 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	3 hr
Jun 7, 4:07 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MFL		16 hr
Jun 7, 4:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	6 hr
Jun 7, 5:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	3 hr
Jun 7, 9:10 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Collier	9 hr
Jun 7, 9:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	3 hr
Jun 7, 10:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	3 hr
Jun 7, 12:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		114 min
Jun 7, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier, Glades, Hendry	42 min
Jun 7, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades, Hendry	65 min
Jun 7, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		57 min
Jun 7, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		84 min
Jun 7, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		54 min
Jun 7, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Hendry	51 min
Jun 7, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry, Monroe	43 min
Jun 7, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	40 min
Jun 7, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier, Hendry	45 min
Jun 7, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		96 min
Jun 7, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		91 min
Jun 7, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	48 min
Jun 7, 5:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	6 hr
Jun 7, 5:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	6 hr
Jun 7, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		55 min
Jun 7, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		66 min
Jun 7, 6:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	25 min
Jun 7, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		92 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.