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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL

September 11, 2002Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 11, 2002, 2:06 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 24 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: Sep 11, 2002, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2002, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 69 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

913 
WFUS52 KMFL 111806
TORMIA
FLC011-111830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
205 PM EDT WED SEP 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 205 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER HOLLYWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PORT EVERGLADES BY 210 PM EDT
  FORT LAUDERDALE BY 215 PM EDT
  WILTON MANORS AND OAKLAND PARK BY 220 PM EDT
  LAUDERDALE BY THE SEA BY 225 PM EDT

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THE PARENT STORM. IF OUTDOORS...
STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES AND AVOID WATER.
MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS
AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE
THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. OR YOU CAN
ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT 305 229
4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.


.END

BAXTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		96 min
Sep 11, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		46 min
Sep 11, 3:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Monroe	49 min
Sep 11, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		57 min

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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.