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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL

July 10, 2000Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2000, 4:58 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
Jul 10, 2000, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2000, 5:30 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), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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 2000-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1317 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 2000-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 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.

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 102101
TORMIA

FLC025-102130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
458 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  NORTHWESTERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 448 PM EDT... AN AIRCRAFT REPORTED A TORNADO 20 MILES WEST OF 
KROME AVENUE NEAR 20 MILE BEND.  THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 
10 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 2566 8063 2583 8057 2591 8080 2570 8087

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.