Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2003, 2:27 PM EST for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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 27, 2003, 2:27 PM EST (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2003, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 271927 TORMIA FLC021-272030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 224 PM EST THU MAR 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 330 PM EST * AT 224 PM EST...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF NAPLES MUNICIPAL AIRPORT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR THE FOLLOWING AREAS THROUGH 330 PM... GOLDEN GATE MILES CITY SUNNILAND SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. LAT...LON 2613 8162 2601 8148 2618 8123 2643 8135 .END HANDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Mar 27, 2:13 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 47 min | |
| Mar 27, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry, Palm Beach | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 2:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry, Palm Beach | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 2:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 3:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 3:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 3:50 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 115 min | |
| Mar 27, 3:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 4:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 56 min |
| Mar 27, 4:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 61 min |
| Mar 27, 5:07 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 83 min | |
| Mar 27, 5:07 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 83 min | |
| Mar 27, 5:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 21 min |
| Mar 27, 6:28 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 92 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.