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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Miami, FL

September 29, 2001Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 2001, 1:45 AM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 60 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 29, 2001, 1:45 AM EDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 2001, 2:45 AM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 00:00Z on 2001-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 222 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 00:00Z on 2001-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 29, 1:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade, Monroe60 min
Sep 29, 2:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade35 min
Sep 29, 2:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade56 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.