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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2003, 5:54 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 21 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
- Mar 27, 2003, 5:54 PM EST (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2003, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 21 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), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 272254 TORMIA FLC086-272315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 553 PM EST THU MAR 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 615 PM EST * AT 552 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR LIBERTY CITY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS THROUGH 615 PM... LITTLE HAITI AND MIAMI SHORES NORTH BISCAYNE BAY AND NORTH BAY VILLAGE MIAMI BEACH THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. LAT...LON 2587 8023 2579 8018 2588 7974 2615 7984 .END HANDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Mar 27, 2:13 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 47 min | |
| Mar 27, 2:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry, Palm Beach | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 2:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry, Palm Beach | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 2:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 3:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 3:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 3:50 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 115 min | |
| Mar 27, 3:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 4:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 56 min |
| Mar 27, 4:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 61 min |
| Mar 27, 5:07 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 83 min | |
| Mar 27, 5:07 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 83 min | |
| Mar 27, 6:28 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 92 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.