Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1997, 5:48 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1997, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 5:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Doral Country Club, FL | |
| May 28, 5:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 48 | Mia Int Arpt, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 1508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMIA 282148 RRA TORMIA FLC025-282245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 548 PM EDT WED MAY 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ...NORTHWESTERN DADE COUNTY A TORNADO HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN NORTHWEST DADE COUNTY WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF THE TURNPIKE AND INTERSTATE 75. THIS SpTORM WILL BE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN REPORT THE SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 60 min |
| May 27, 10:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 58 min |
| May 27, 11:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 55 min |
| May 28, 12:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 2 hr |
| May 28, 1:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 63 min |
| May 28, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 60 min |
| May 28, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 63 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.