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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Miami, FL

October 3, 2000Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2000, 4:13 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 3, 2000, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired
Oct 3, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 2000-10-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 538 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-10-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

116 
WFUS52 KMFL 032013
TORMIA
FLC025-032045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
413 PM EDT TUE OCT 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 409 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LIBERTY CITY...OR ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF HIALEAH...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 445 PM EDT...  
  CORAL GABLES...
  NORTH MIAMI BEACH...
  AVENTURA...

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 3, 4:23 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward52 min
Oct 3, 6:04 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade56 min
Oct 3, 6:46 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade29 min
Oct 3, 7:13 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade32 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.