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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 2002, 4:53 PM EST for Collier County, Hendry County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2002, 4:53 PM EST (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2002, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Collier County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 162153 TORMIA FLC021-051-099-162230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 452 PM EST SAT NOV 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA SOUTHEASTERN HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA EASTERN COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 530 PM EST * AT 452 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG CYPRESS RESERVATION... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 530 PM EST... BIG CYPRESS RESERVATION ROTENBERGER WILDLIFE AREA 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. .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, 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 |
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.