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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Miami, FL

May 31, 2002Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2002, 5:13 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 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), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 22 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: 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

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The text

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

434 
WFUS52 KMFL 312113
TORMIA
FLC086-312145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
512 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 512 PM EDT... AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS REPORTED NUMEROUS 
  FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTS NEAR TAMIAMI AIRPORT. SO FAR THE REPORTS
  INDICATE THAT THE FUNNEL CLOUD HAS NOT YET TOUCHED DOWN.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  KENDALE LAKES BY 515 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2563 8055 2563 8035 2581 8035 2581 8055

.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, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	26 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.