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Severe Weather Potential for South Florida Thursday-Friday, Dec. 17-18, 2009

Severe Weather Potential for South Florida Thursday-Friday, Dec. 17-18, 2009. National Weather Service WFO Miami, FL. Big Picture. Active southerly jet stream Digging trough over south Texas and western Gulf of Mexico Developing, deepening surface low pressure system

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Severe Weather Potential for South Florida Thursday-Friday, Dec. 17-18, 2009

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  1. Severe Weather Potentialfor South FloridaThursday-Friday, Dec. 17-18, 2009 National Weather Service WFO Miami, FL

  2. Big Picture • Active southerly jet stream • Digging trough over south Texas and western Gulf of Mexico • Developing, deepening surface low pressure system • System will move northeast across N Florida • Cold front passage will end threat late Friday

  3. Graphics • Satellite pictures • Prog charts • QPF • SPC Convective outlooks • Sfla – best combo shear/instability from 09z Friday-00z Saturday • What to expect • Bottom line (time of highest threat of severe weather)

  4. Timing • East wind this evening will slowly veer to SE by predawn hours and S on Friday morning, finally SW Friday afternoon, windy, warm and humid Friday • Warm front will be broad and diffuse but by 7 AM Friday it should be in the L.O. region moving north • Surface low pressure system will move from the S Gulf to Apalachee Bay by noon Friday and deepen • Most of the thunderstorms should be over by 7 PM Friday, wind veers to W • Cool air arrives overnight with NW wind by 7 AM Saturday • Coldest low temperatures some spotty 30s interior, mainly 40s to near 50 Monday morning

  5. National Weather Service 11691 SW 17th St Miami, Fla. 33165 305-229-4550 (forecasts and current conditions English and Spanish) 305-229-4502 (administration) http://www.weather.gov/miami home page http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/espanol en español

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