Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Miami, FL
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Hendry, Palm Beach | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 60 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001
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.