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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this high surf advisory at Feb 5, 2024, 3:27 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 6, 2024, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 51 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2024, 3:27 PM EST (20:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2024, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2024, 6:54 PM EST
- In force
- 51 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 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2118 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 5, 12:50 PM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 12:50 PM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:24 AM EST | Gale Warning | MFL | 53 hr | |
| Feb 5, 2:26 AM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 53 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:26 AM EST | Rip Current Statement | MFL | Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 8 days |
| Feb 5, 2:26 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | MFL | Collier | 41 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:29 AM EST | Wind Advisory | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 47 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:41 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 49 min | |
| Feb 5, 6:51 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 39 min | |
| Feb 5, 7:28 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 47 min | |
| Feb 5, 7:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Monroe | 52 min |
| Feb 5, 9:22 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | MFL | 4 days | |
| Feb 5, 9:52 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 68 min | |
| Feb 5, 10:59 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 61 min | |
| Feb 5, 3:33 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 27 min | |
| Feb 5, 4:01 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 44 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.