Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2003, 3:27 PM EST for Palm Beach 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, 3:27 PM EST (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2003, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 272027 TORMIA FLC099-272130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 326 PM EST THU MAR 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 430 PM EST * AT 326 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF BELLE GLADE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BELLE GLADE BY 330 PM EST 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. LAT...LON 2664 8077 2648 8059 2696 8011 2695 8049 .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, 2:37 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, 3:50 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.