Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT for Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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 9, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2003, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 1542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 091800 TORMIA FLC011-099-091830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 200 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 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 230 PM EDT * AT 200 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER FORT LAUDERDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 230 PM EDT... OAKLAND PARK WILTON MANORS AND LAUDERDALE BY THE SEA POMPANO BEACH AND POMPANO BEACH AIRPORT LIGHTHOUSE POINT DEERFIELD BEACH HILLSBORO BEACH IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 2615 8028 2602 8013 2638 7966 2658 7987 .END LUSHINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 9:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Aug 9, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 3:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 24 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.