Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2003, 2:37 PM EST for Hendry County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 53 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, 2:37 PM EST (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2003, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hendry County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 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, 11:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.
253 WFUS52 KMFL 271937 TORMIA FLC051-099-272030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 236 PM EST THU MAR 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA EAST CENTRAL HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 330 PM EST * AT 236 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OKEELANTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OKEELANTA BY 315 PM EST SOUTH BAY BY 320 PM EST BELLE GLADE BY 325 PM EST VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THE PARENT STORM. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 2654 8104 2638 8095 2651 8041 2686 8062 .END BAXTER
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, 2:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 63 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 |
Nearby
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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.