Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 2003, 1:43 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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
- Mar 17, 2003, 1:43 PM EST (18:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2003, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 62 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), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
188 WFUS52 KMFL 171843 TORMIA FLC086-171945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 142 PM EST MON MAR 17 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 245 PM EST * AT 142 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF ROYAL PALM RANGER STATION... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 245 PM EST... ROYAL PALM RANGER STATION FLORIDA CITY HOMESTEAD AND REDLAND PRINCETON AND NARANJA 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 2530 8078 2518 8064 2541 8033 2557 8045 .END LUSHINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:52 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 53 min | |
| Mar 16, 11:53 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Mar 17, 1:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 1:18 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 87 min | |
| Mar 17, 1:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 66 min |
| Mar 17, 1:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 66 min |
| Mar 17, 2:06 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 54 min | |
| Mar 17, 3:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 39 min |
| Mar 17, 2:08 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Mar 17, 2:17 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 88 min | |
| Mar 17, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 53 min |
| Mar 17, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 3:53 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 67 min | |
| Mar 17, 5:10 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 65 min | |
| Mar 17, 6:37 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 53 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.