Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 2003, 1:39 AM EST for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 66 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 17, 2003, 1:39 AM EST (06:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2003, 2:45 AM EST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.4
- Supercell composite
- -3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMFL 170639
TORMIA
FLC087-170745-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
139 AM EST MON MAR 17 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
* UNTIL 245 AM EST
* AT 139 AM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER WILDERNESS WATERWAY SOUTH...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
WILDERNESS WATERWAY SOUTH BY 140 AM EST
LOOP ROAD EE CENTER BY 215 AM EST
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 2537 8118 2527 8102 2535 8090 2578 8090
2576 8101
.END
HANDELThe office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:52 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 53 min | |
| Mar 16, 11:53 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Mar 17, 1:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 1:18 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 87 min | |
| Mar 17, 1:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 66 min |
| Mar 17, 2:06 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 54 min | |
| Mar 17, 3:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 39 min |
| Mar 17, 1:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 62 min |
| Mar 17, 2:08 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Mar 17, 2:17 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 88 min | |
| Mar 17, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 53 min |
| Mar 17, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 3:53 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 67 min | |
| Mar 17, 5:10 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 65 min | |
| Mar 17, 6:37 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 53 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.