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High Surf Advisory 1, NWS Miami, FL

March 28, 2025Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this high surf advisory at Mar 28, 2025, 3:02 AM EDT for Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 28, 2025, 2:50 PM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2025, 3:02 AM EDT (07:02 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 28, 2025, 2:50 PM EDT
Expired
Mar 29, 2025, 7:53 AM EDT
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

Counties Broward County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:02 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 00:00Z on 2025-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2025-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1098 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.