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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2000, 4:23 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 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 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.4 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 032023 TORMIA FLC011-032115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 423 PM EDT TUE OCT 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 419 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NORTH PERRY AIRPORT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLYWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 515 PM EDT... DANIA BEACH... FORT LAUDERDALE AND LAUDERDALE LAKES... WILTON MANORS AND OAKLAND PARK... 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 ROTHFUSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 32 min |
| Oct 3, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 56 min |
| Oct 3, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 29 min |
| Oct 3, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 32 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000
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.