Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2002, 2:03 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2002, 2:03 PM EDT (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 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), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:06 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Hialeah, FL | Dime-size hail was reported by a SKYWARN spotter. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 10 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
- 1901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
678 WUUS52 KMFL 051803 SVRMIA FLC086-051900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 201 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 201 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HIALEAH. NEARLY STATIONARY MOVEMENT. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HIALEAH BY 210 PM EDT MIAMI LAKES BY 215 PM EDT OPA-LOCKA BY 220 PM EDT CAROL CITY BY 225 PM EDT PRO PLAYER STADIUM BY 230 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 2595 8046 2580 8047 2579 8020 2595 8020 .END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 52 min |
| Jul 5, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.