Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 5:04 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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
- May 31, 2002, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 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), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
420 WUUS52 KMFL 312104 SVRMIA FLC086-312130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 502 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 502 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR KENDALL. SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE THUNDERSTORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KROME DETENTION CENTER BY 505 PM EDT TAMIAMI FAIRGROUNDS BY 505 PM EDT KENDALE LAKES BY 530 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. HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. LAT...LON 2591 8038 2581 8056 2556 8055 2563 8029 .END PFOST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 30 min | |
| May 31, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 32 min |
| May 31, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 29 min |
| May 31, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 32 min |
| May 31, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 31 min |
| May 31, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 28 min |
| May 31, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 31 min |
| May 31, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 48 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.