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Flood Watch 2, NWS Miami, FL

June 6, 2022Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this flood watch at Jun 6, 2022, 12:15 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2022, 12:15 PM EDT (16:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2022, 8:02 PM EDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Flood severity: None

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Jun 6, 10:29 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 10:29 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 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, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	27 min
Jun 6, 1:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	113 min
Jun 6, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		46 min
Jun 6, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	42 min
Jun 6, 2:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	113 min
Jun 6, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	119 min
Jun 6, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	40 min
Jun 6, 4:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	52 min
Jun 6, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	41 min
Jun 6, 4:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	87 min
Jun 6, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		45 min
Jun 6, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	26 min
Jun 6, 5:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	55 min
Jun 6, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Miami-Dade	52 min
Jun 6, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	31 min
Jun 6, 6:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	56 min
Jun 6, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	40 min
Jun 6, 6:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward	65 min
Jun 6, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	45 min
Jun 6, 7:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	60 min
Jun 6, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	45 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.