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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2003, 3:26 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 64 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, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 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), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 091926 TORMIA FLC099-092030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 324 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 324 PM EDT... A SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH A DISTINCT WALL CLOUD 5 MILES SOUTH OF WELLINGTON...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 430 PM EDT... WELLINGTON GREENACRES CITY LION COUNTRY SAFARI ROYAL PALM BEACH AND HAVERHILL FAU NORTH CAMPUS AND PALM BEACH GARDENS REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT 305 229 4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 2654 8039 2650 8019 2681 8010 2685 8036 .END ROTHFUSS
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, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 30 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.