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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2000, 6:04 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 56 min. 3 reports 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
- Oct 3, 2000, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 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 22:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Redland, FL | A brief tornado touchdown was reported in the Redlands. |
| Oct 3, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Kendall, FL | A SKYWARN spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown near Kendall Drive and the Florida Turnpike Extension. |
| Oct 3, 6:41 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hialeah, FL | A SKYWARN spotter reported wind gusts of 55 to 60 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, 10.1 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.
- 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 032206 TORMIA FLC025-032300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 604 PM EDT TUE OCT 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 600 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 18 MILES WEST OF HOMESTEAD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE PARENT STORM THROUGH 700 PM EDT... PA-HAY OKEE OVERLOOK AND ROYAL PALM RANGER STATION... REDLAND... KENDALL LAKES... KENDALL AND SWEATWATER... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END RADER/SANTOS
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, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 52 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 |
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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.