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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Miami, FL

September 5, 2003Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2003, 2:32 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
43 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), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 051832
TORMIA
FLC099-051915-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 230 PM EDT...A REPORT OF A LARGE WATERSPOUT WAS RECEIVED THAT 
WAS A MILE AND A HALF EAST OF DELRAY BEACH MOVING NORTHWEST. THIS
IF THIS MOVEMENT CONTINUES...THE BOYNTON BEACH AREA WILL BE AFFECTED
ALONG THE SHORELINE.

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 2660 8001 2635 8002 2638 8012 2662 8013

$$

RADER

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, 12:58 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade32 min
Sep 5, 1:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL116 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.