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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Miami, FL

September 27, 2001Broward County, Florida

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 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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2760 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 27, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade35 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.