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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2000, 6:46 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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
- Oct 3, 2000, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 1 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 032247 TORMIA FLC025-032315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 646 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 715 PM EDT * AT 644 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CORAL GABLES...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF SOUTH MIAMI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 715 PM EDT... CORAL GABLES... MIAMI SPRINGS AND MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT... HIALEAH... LIBERTY CITY... MIAMI SHORES AND OPA-LOCKA... NORTH MIAMI... 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 NATI|ONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT 305-229-4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 2578 8039 2569 8029 2586 8013 2593 8026 .END RADER
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, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 56 min |
| Oct 3, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 32 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.