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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 60 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, 8:30 PM EDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 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), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 040031 TORMIA FLC025-040130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 830 PM EDT TUE OCT 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 809 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF HOMESTEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 930 PM EDT... PRINCETON... GOULDS... CUTLER RIDGE... PERRINE... KENDALL... SOUTH MIAMI... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 2546 8054 2537 8036 2573 8010 2585 8034 .END SANTOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 58 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.