Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2002, 3:10 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2002, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 1802 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMFL 031910 CCA SVRMIA FLC086-032000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 305 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HIALEAH NORTH MIAMI BISCAYNE PARK AND MIAMI SHORES....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HIALEAH BY 305 PM EDT MIAMI LAKES BY 310 PM EDT OPA-LOCKA BY 315 PM EDT PRO PLAYER STADIUM BY 320 PM EDT NORTH BAY VILLAGE BY 325 PM EDT IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 2588 8036 2577 8026 2585 8013 2596 8024 .END GALLUP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 62 min | |
| Jul 3, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 60 min | |
| Jul 3, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.