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Flood Watch 2, NWS Miami, FL

August 5, 20197 counties in Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this flood watch at Aug 5, 2019, 10:43 AM EDT for 7 counties in Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2019, 10:43 AM EDT (14:43 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Flood severity: None

Counties Broward County, FL, Collier County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 1432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Aug 5, 8:01 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 8:01 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 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
Aug 5, 8:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Collier	3 hr
Aug 5, 11:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	50 min
Aug 5, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	51 min
Aug 5, 12:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	3 hr
Aug 5, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	50 min
Aug 5, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		63 min
Aug 5, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	30 min
Aug 5, 1:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	5 hr
Aug 5, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	63 min
Aug 5, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	49 min
Aug 5, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		62 min
Aug 5, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		58 min
Aug 5, 1:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	5 hr
Aug 5, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	49 min
Aug 5, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	39 min
Aug 5, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	47 min
Aug 5, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		78 min
Aug 5, 2:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	3 hr
Aug 5, 2:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	3 hr
Aug 5, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier, Hendry	64 min
Aug 5, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Monroe	42 min

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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.