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Special Weather Statement, NWS Miami, FL

July 22, 2018Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2018, 3:01 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 44 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 22, 2018, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2018, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 2275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 22, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		37 min
Jul 22, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		28 min
Jul 22, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		38 min
Jul 22, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		31 min
Jul 22, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	45 min
Jul 22, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		38 min
Jul 22, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	46 min
Jul 22, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	53 min
Jul 22, 6:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	3 hr
Jul 22, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		67 min
Jul 22, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	41 min
Jul 22, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	52 min
Jul 22, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		95 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.