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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2000, 6:43 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 47 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
- Sep 16, 2000, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Palm Beach County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 162242 TORMIA FLC099-162300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 643 PM EDT SAT SEP 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN PALM BEACH COUNTY * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 635 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLE DEVELOPING TORNADOES OVER BOCA RATON...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS...ASSOCIATED WITH THE FEEDER BANDS OF TROPICAL STORM GORDON HAVE MOVED INTO SOUTHERN PALM BEACH COUNTY AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF BUT DAMAGING TORNADOES. PERSONS IN THE AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND IF A TORNADO IS SEEN OR HEARD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN THE INTERIOR OF A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. 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 SERVICE 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 2642 8030 2634 8014 2660 8007 2669 8055 .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, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.