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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2000, 7:13 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 3, 2000, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 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), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 10 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 032315 TORMIA FLC025-032355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 713 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 745 PM EDT * AT 709 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF KENDALL LAKES...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF KENDALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A SPOTTER DID REPORT A FUNNEL WITH THIS STORM ABOUT 705 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 755 PM EDT... DORAL AND MIAMI SPRINGS... HIALEAH AND MEDLEY... LIBERTY CITY... MIAMI LAKES AND OPA-LOCKA... 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 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT 305-229-4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 2575 8052 2564 8038 2584 8016 2596 8031 .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, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 29 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.