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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Miami, FL

May 24, 2003Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2003, 4:18 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 57 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 24, 2003, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 35 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 831 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
831 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

552 
WFUS52 KMFL 242018
TORMIA
FLC086-242115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
417 PM EDT SAT MAY 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 417 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF REDLAND...MOVING EAST AT
  15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  REDLAND BY 440 PM EDT
  KENDALE LAKES BY 455 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 2572 8069 2554 8072 2546 8038 2569 8033

.END

CHRISTENSEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 12:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL118 min
May 24, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL56 min
May 24, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade38 min
May 24, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach63 min
May 24, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach60 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.