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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

July 28, 2017Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2017, 1:39 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 51 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 28, 2017, 1:39 PM EDT (17:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2017, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 1487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 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 27, 7:41 PM EDT, 17 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 7:41 PM EDT, 17 hours 58 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
Jul 27, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	43 min
Jul 27, 8:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Hendry	47 min
Jul 28, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Hendry	52 min
Jul 28, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	36 min
Jul 28, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	46 min
Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		95 min
Jul 28, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Martin	34 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.