Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2001, 3:39 PM EST for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2001, 3:39 PM EST (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2001, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 4:20 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Davie, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 1036 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 192043 CCA TORMIA FLC011-192130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 339 PM EST MON MAR 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 430 PM EST * AT 339 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF WESTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF DAVIE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO IS MOVING TOWARD THE HIGH POPULATED AREAS OF BROWARD COUNTY. THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A SfTURDY BUILDING MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. LAT...LON 2619 8058 2601 8056 2601 8014 2627 8012 .END ESPOSITO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 2:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 4:26 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.