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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Miami, FL

June 8, 2001Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2001, 4:17 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 28 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
Jun 8, 2001, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2001, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 2001-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1265 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
1265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 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 082023 CCA
TORMIA
FLC011-021-051-099-082045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION...
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
417 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2001


CORRECTION TO LOCATION

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTHWESTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
  EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
  SOUTHEASTERN HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA
  EXTREME EAST CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 417 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BIG CYPRESS SEMINOLE       
  INDIAN RESERVATION...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEVILS GARDEN
  ..MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A
STURDY 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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE WNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DIRECTLY AT 305 229 4522 TO REPORT
SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 2616 8101 2623 8087 2642 8089 2634 8108

.END

ROTHFUSS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 4:17 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward, Hendry, Palm Beach28 min
Jun 8, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Palm Beach60 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.