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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Miami, FL

May 27, 2003Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2003, 5:06 PM EDT for Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 54 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 27, 2003, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Broward County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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

Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 1254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 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.

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 272106
TORMIA
FLC011-099-272200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
506 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 506 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER FORT LAUDERDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  DANIA BEACH AND LAUDERHILL BY 508 PM EDT
  WILTON MANORS AND OAKLAND PARK BY 510 PM EDT
  LAUDERDALE BY THE SEA AND SEA RANCH LAKES BY 520 PM EDT
  POMPANO BEACH AND POMPANO BEACH AIRPORT BY 525 PM EDT
  LIGHTHOUSE POINT BY 530 PM EDT

THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A
STURDY BUILDING 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 2611 8030 2598 8016 2635 7968 2654 7989

.END

CHRISTENSEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		57 min
May 27, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	54 min
May 27, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		66 min
May 27, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
May 27, 6:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Broward	3 hr
May 27, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	64 min
May 27, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	62 min
May 27, 7:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	2 hr

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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.