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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2000, 8:59 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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 17, 2000, 8:59 AM EDT (12:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2000, 9:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 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), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1822 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 171259 TORMIA FLC099-171330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 859 AM EDT SUN SEP 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 930 AM EDT * AT 849 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF OKEELANTA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTH BAY...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OKEELANTA BY 900 AM EDT... SOUTH BAY BY 905 AM EDT... BELLE GLADE BY 910 AM EDT... CANAL POINT AND PAHOKEE BY 930 AM EDT... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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 305-229-452[2 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 2649 8079 2650 8059 2692 8060 2691 8085 .END LUSHINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 10:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 23 min |
| Sep 17, 10:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Glades, Hendry | 36 min |
| Sep 17, 10:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.