Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 2002, 2:19 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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
- Nov 16, 2002, 2:19 PM EST (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2002, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 161919 TORMIA FLC099-162000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 218 PM EST SAT NOV 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 300 PM EST * AT 218 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF HOLEY LAND WILDLIFE AREA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 300 PM EST... LION COUNTRY SAFARI THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 2643 8077 2634 8060 2687 8016 2702 8041 .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, 2:49 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, 5:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 56 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 |
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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.