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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL

March 29, 2000Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2000, 5:37 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 68 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 2000, 5:37 PM EST (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 2000, 6:45 PM EST
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1792 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1792 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 292238
TORMIA
FLC099-292345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
537 PM EST WED MAR 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  NORTH CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 537 PM EST A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO OVER
  PALM BEACH COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BELLE GLADE...
  MOVING+ NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

AT 537 PM EST THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR BELLE GLADE.


SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

LAT...LON 2676 8072 2664 8058 2685 8035 2696 8050

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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.