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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Miami, FL

August 8, 2003Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2003, 3:13 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 8, 2003, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2003, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
47 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), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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 nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 2003-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1378 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 2003-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
987 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 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 081913
TORMIA
FLC099-082000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
312 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 312 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS JUST EAST 
OF CANAL POINT MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LION COUNTRY SAFARI BY 330 PM EDT
  WELLINGTON BY 340 PM EDT

A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR CANAL POINT AT 253 PM. 

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. IF YOU
ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW TAKE
COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS.
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER.

LAT...LON 2684 8059 2663 8056 2660 8027 2694 8025

.END

HANDEL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL63 min
Aug 8, 3:56 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Aug 8, 6:43 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.