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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Miami, FL

October 3, 2000Miami-Dade County, Florida

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.

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.

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.

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