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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2000, 10:22 AM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 17, 2000, 10:22 AM EDT (14:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2000, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 10:40 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Coconut Creek, FL | A SKYWARN spotter reported large limbs blown down by winds estimated at 62 mph. |
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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 40 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 171423 TORMIA FLC011-171445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1022 AM EDT SUN SEP 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 1045 AM EDT * AT 1020 AM EDT BROWARD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT THE INTERSECTION OF HALLANDALE BEACH BOULEVARD AND I-95. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE PARENT STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1045 AM EDT... FORT LAUDERDALE AND LAUDERDALE LAKES... POMPANO BEACH... LIGHTHOUSE POINT... 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. .END SANTOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 8:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.