Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2003, 2:50 PM EST for Hendry County, Florida. It was in force for 55 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, 2:50 PM EST (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2003, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hendry County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 271950
TORMIA
FLC051-272045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
249 PM EST THU MAR 27 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA
* UNTIL 345 PM EST
* AT 249 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEVILS GARDEN...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
DEVILS GARDEN BY 305 PM EST
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THE PARENT STORM. IF OUTDOORS...
STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES AND AVOID WATER.
MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...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.
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 2676 8104 2672 8092 2647 8116 2658 8137
2676 8116
.END
BAXTERThe 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, 2:37 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, 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.