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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2000, 6:40 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 20 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
- Jun 21, 2000, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Collier County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 212241 TORMIA FLC021-212300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 640 PM EDT WED JUN 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 635 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY..MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 700 PM EDT... INCLUDE MILE CITY...ROCK ISLAND HIGHWAY 29 AND INTERSTATE 75 IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR...SOUTH CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCLUDING THE LOCALITIES OF MONROE STATION...OCHOPEE...DEEP LAKE AND ROCK ISLAND UNTIL 715 PM EDT. LAT...LON 2599 8127 2610 8119 2618 8134 2606 8138
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 65 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.