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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Miami, FL

November 16, 2002Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Monroe County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2002, 5:19 PM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 16, 2002, 5:19 PM EST (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2002, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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
Nov 16, 6:10 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Pembroke Pines, FL	A cluster of severe thunderstorms brought down trees in Pembroke Pines and Pompano Beach.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 16, 3:10 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

669 
WUUS52 KMFL 162219
SVRMIA
FLC011-086-087-162315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
517 PM EST SAT NOV 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
  WESTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
  MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 615 PM EST

* AT 515 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 20 MILES EAST OF MONROE STATION TO 21 MILES NORTH OF FLAMINGO
  TO 19 MILES WEST OF FLAMINGO..MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORMS THROUGH 615 PM EST...
  AREAS WEST OF US 27 IN BROWARD COUNTY
  MIDDLE CAPE SABLE AND FORTYMILE BEND
  MICCOSUKEE INDIAN RESERVATION
  FLAMINGO
  KROME DETENTION CENTER AND ROYAL PALM RANGER STATION

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE 
TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR 
HOUSE OR BUSINESS IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

.END

SANTOS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 16, 11:28 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MFL		62 min
Nov 16, 12:31 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MFL		59 min
Nov 16, 12:50 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MFL		70 min
Nov 16, 1:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier	61 min
Nov 16, 1:54 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MFL		96 min
Nov 16, 2:19 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	41 min
Nov 16, 2:49 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MFL		86 min
Nov 16, 3:42 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MFL		93 min
Nov 16, 4:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier, Monroe	59 min
Nov 16, 4:24 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MFL		36 min
Nov 16, 4:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach	37 min
Nov 16, 5:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	69 min
Nov 16, 6:00 PM EST	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.