10000 mW/cm^2 would be 10 W/cm^2 which is 100 000 W/m^2 of UVB.  Total
solar radiation should be on the order of 1300 W/m^2 (it's nominally
1000 max here at 42N) at overhead sun, so 10x the power just
in UVB makes zero sense.

I am at 42ish North (Massachusetts, US), and with a Davis UV sensor, the
highest values I see are about 7.

The US index talks about mid teens, but we are a less tropical place
than you.  The web page inexplicably presents numbers without units as
if that is a reasonable thing to do.

https://www.epa.gov/sunsafety/calculating-uv-index-0

Reading wikipedia, 18-19 seems higher than plausible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_index

This also seems to argue against 19:

https://www.who.int/uv/publications/en/UVIGuide.pdf

but this seems to say it is plausible:

https://niwa.co.nz/sites/niwa.co.nz/files/import/attachments/Liley_2.pdf


I would look at values published by your national weather or health
authorities and compare.

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