Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 11:44 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 11:44 PM EST (04:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2003, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 31 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), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 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 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 2471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 22.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMFL 230444 SVRMIA FLC099-230515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1144 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 1215 AM EST * AT 1144 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF BOCA WEST...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BOCA WEST BY 1150 PM EST FAU SOUTH CAMPUS BY 1155 PM EST OCEAN RIDGE BY MIDNIGHT EST 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. LAT...LON 2649 8035 2635 8034 2633 8009 2652 8007 .END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:39 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 96 min | |
| Feb 22, 8:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 8:54 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 66 min | |
| Feb 22, 9:44 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 31 min | |
| Feb 22, 9:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Hendry, Palm Beach | 47 min |
| Feb 22, 11:18 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.