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High Surf Advisory 5, NWS Miami, FL

March 12, 2022Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this high surf advisory at Mar 12, 2022, 3:19 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 13, 2022, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 12, 2022, 3:19 PM EST (20:19 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 13, 2022, 12:00 AM EST
Expired
Mar 13, 2022, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2022-03-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 159 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2022-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 322 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Mar 11, 6:46 PM EST, 20 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 6:46 PM EST, 20 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 1:03 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryMFLGlades, Hendry31 hr
Mar 12, 11:18 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL87 min
Mar 12, 11:54 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL96 min
Mar 12, 11:59 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLGlades46 min
Mar 12, 12:19 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLCollier, Hendry56 min
Mar 12, 12:34 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL86 min
Mar 12, 12:41 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLGlades34 min
Mar 12, 1:12 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLHendry, Palm Beach48 min
Mar 12, 1:17 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLCollier43 min
Mar 12, 1:22 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL38 min
Mar 12, 1:49 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL56 min
Mar 12, 1:52 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL98 min
Mar 12, 1:54 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLPalm Beach51 min
Mar 12, 1:57 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward, Monroe48 min
Mar 12, 2:32 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward, Miami-Dade, Monroe58 min
Mar 12, 2:33 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL87 min
Mar 12, 2:39 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward36 min
Mar 12, 2:41 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLPalm Beach34 min
Mar 12, 2:44 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL46 min
Mar 12, 3:28 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade32 min
Mar 12, 3:30 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL45 min
Mar 12, 4:22 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL25 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.