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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Miami, FL

November 4, 2003Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 2003, 5:15 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 60 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
Nov 4, 2003, 5:15 PM EST (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Nov 4, 2003, 6:15 PM EST
In force
60 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), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 2003-11-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2716 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-11-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2716 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 042215
TORMIA
FLC086-042315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
514 PM EST TUE NOV 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM EST

* AT 514 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF ROYAL PALM RANGER STATION...
  MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

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 2517 8069 2520 8049 2552 8049 2548 8079

$$

CHRISTENSEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 4, 8:11 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL64 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.