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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Miami, FL

September 5, 2003Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2003, 12:58 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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
Sep 5, 2003, 12:58 PM EDT (16:58 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2003, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 19 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 2003-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1087 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 2003-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
1087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 051658
TORMIA
FLC086-051730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1258 PM EDT FRI SEP 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1258 PM EDT... A SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO OVER
  METRO ZOO MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 130 PM EDT...
  PERRINE
  KENDALL AND PINECREST

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 2569 8052 2552 8044 2559 8013 2584 8025

$$

WARNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 12:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL41 min
Sep 5, 1:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL116 min
Sep 5, 2:32 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach43 min
Sep 5, 2:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL59 min
Sep 5, 3:43 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL92 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.