Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2004, 1:03 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 42 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
- Feb 25, 2004, 1:03 PM EST (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2004, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 10:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 880 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
201 WUUS52 KMFL 251803 SVRMIA FLC086-251845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 102 PM EST WED FEB 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 145 PM EST * AT 1256 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MICCOSUKEE INDIAN VILLAGE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF MONROE STATION...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE TAMIAMI TRAIL. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE OR BUSINESS IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 2594 8082 2576 8086 2562 8052 2593 8052 $$ HANDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 9:49 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 56 min | |
| Feb 25, 10:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 58 min |
| Feb 25, 10:15 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 60 min | |
| Feb 25, 10:33 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 27 min |
| Feb 25, 10:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry | 25 min |
| Feb 25, 11:30 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 60 min | |
| Feb 25, 12:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 60 min | |
| Feb 25, 12:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 53 min |
| Feb 25, 12:56 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Feb 25, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 53 min |
| Feb 25, 1:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 58 min |
| Feb 25, 1:20 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 100 min | |
| Feb 25, 2:54 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 66 min | |
| Feb 25, 3:05 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 55 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.