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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL

April 15, 2000Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2000, 6:10 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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
Apr 15, 2000, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 2000-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 815 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
815 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

544 
WFUS52 KMFL 152214
TORMIA
FLC099-152245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
610 PM EDT SAT APR 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  EAST CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 610 PM EDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO AT CONGRESS AVENUE 
NORTH OF BOYNTON BEACH BOULEVARD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 
MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 645 PM EDT...
  DELRAY BEACH
  BOYNTON BEACH
  LANTANA
  LAKE WORTH
  

SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2641 8024 2637 8017 2637 8008 2675 8001

NNNN

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.