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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Broward County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Tamarac, FL | A tornado touched down in the Everglades west of the Sawgrass Expressway. It was videotaped by a storm chaser. |
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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 697 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 162206 TORMIA FLC011-162230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 608 PM EDT SAT SEP 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 557 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL POSSIBLE DEVELOPING TORNADOS NEAR THE SAWGRASS EXPRESSWAY NEAR SUNRISE AND ALSO WEST OF THE METROPOLITAN AREAS FROM US 27 TO THE MICCOSUKEE INDIAN RESERVATION. THE POSSIBLE TORNADOES ARE IN ASSOCIATION WITH A FEEDER BAND FROM TROPICAL STORM GORDON THAT IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 10 MPH AND MAY AFFECT THE CITIES OF TAMARAC...CORAL SPRINGS AND PARKLAND DURING THE NEXT HOUR. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVyICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT 305-229-4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 2624 8017 2604 8027 2601 8076 2629 8081 .END LUSHINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 47 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.