Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1993, 3:39 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1993, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1993, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMIA 191945 TORMIA FLC025-192045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 339 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN DADE COUNTY 335 PM...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES NORTH OF RICHMOND HEIGHTS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARDS KENDALL NEAR DADELAND AND SOUTH MIAMI. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A SAFE REFUGE FROM A TORNADO. MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN ASK A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 19, 1:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
FLZ018>022-502>504-191830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 130 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 AT 125 PM THIS AFTERNOON...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHERN COLLIER COUNTY AND OVER WESTERN HENDRY COUNTY. A THUNDERSTORM WAS IN PROGRESS OVER FELDA IN HENDRY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH FLORIDA. THE STORMS IN NORTH COLLIER COUNTY SHOULD MOVE INTO HENDRY COUNTY AND INTO GLADES COUNTY AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF ORTONA AND CITRUS CENTER.
Special weather statement, May 19, 2:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
FLZ018>022-502>504-201930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 225 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 AT 225 PM...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC OCEAN. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS OVER SOUTH FLORIDA...PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PREVAIL WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS DEVELOPING MAINLY OVER THE WATER.
Special weather statement, May 19, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
FLZ018>022-502>504-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 230 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 AT 225 PM THIS AFTERNOON...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH OVER NORTHERN HENDRY...GLADES...AND SOUTHWEST PALM BEACH COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GLADES COUNTY OVER PALMDALE AND MOVING TOWARDS MOORE HAVEN. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER DADE COUNTY JUST SOUTHWEST OF SWEETWATER AND EXTENDED SOUTHWEST TO JUST SOUTH OF SHARK VALLEY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH FLORIDA AND GENERALLY MOVE NORTHEAST.
Special weather statement, May 19, 2:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
FLZ018>022-502>504-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 230 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 AT 225 PM THIS AFTERNOON...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH OVER NORTHERN HENDRY...GLADES...AND SOUTHWEST PALM BEACH COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GLADES COUNTY OVER PALMDALE AND MOVING TOWARDS MOORE HAVEN. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER DADE COUNTY JUST SOUTHWEST OF SWEETWATER AND EXTENDED SOUTHWEST TO JUST SOUTH OF SHARK VALLEY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH FLORIDA AND GENERALLY MOVE NORTHEAST.
Special weather statement, May 19, 2:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
FLZ018>022-502>504-202030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 235 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 AT 230 PM...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC OCEAN. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS OVER SOUTH FLORIDA...PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PREVAIL WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS MAINLY OVER THE WATER.
Special weather statement, May 19, 3:35 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
FLZ018>022-502>504-202030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR ISSUE TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 335 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 AT 330 PM...MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC OCEAN. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS OVER SOUTH FLORIDA...PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PREVAIL WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS MAINLY OVER THE WATER.
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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.