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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Miami, FL

June 22, 2000Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2000, 12:42 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 18 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 22, 2000, 12:42 PM EDT (16:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2000, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -46 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.

632 
WFUS52 KMFL 221643
TORMIA
FLC025-221700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1242 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  EXTREME NORTHEASTERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 100 PM EDT

* AT 1238 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO OVER
  MIAMI LAKES..MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 2593 8035 2589 8035 2587 8025 2592 8024

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	45 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.