Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2001, 1:49 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 27, 2001, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2001, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 2760 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
817 WFUS52 KMFL 271751 TORMIA FLC011-271845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 149 PM EDT THU SEP 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 149 PM EDT LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO WEST OF SAWGRASS EXPRESSWAY... NEAR COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 245 PM EDT... SAWGRASS MILLS MALL TAMARAC CORAL SPRINGS AND NORTH LAUDERDALE PARKLAND AND MARGATE COCONUT CREEK REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DIRECTLY AT 305 229 4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. .END GARCIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.