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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Miami, FL

August 13, 2004Hendry County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 11:06 AM EDT for Hendry County, Florida. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 2004, 11:06 AM EDT (15:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2004, 11:45 AM EDT
In force: 39 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), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:09 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 13, 11:30 AM EDT	TORNADO	Devils Garden, FL

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 13, 7:30 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1914 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 6.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 131506
TORMIA
FLC051-131545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1104 AM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 1145 AM EDT

* AT 1104 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 19 MILES        
  SOUTHEAST OF DEVILS GARDEN...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH THROUGH THE    
  BIG CYPRESS RESERVATION WEST OF STATE ROAD 833.

* THE STORM WILL AFFECT...
  DEVILS GARDEN BY 1130 AM EDT.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2631 8112 2631 8091 2676 8095 2676 8117

$$

EC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 11:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	47 min
Aug 13, 1:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	63 min
Aug 13, 1:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier	46 min
Aug 13, 2:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Glades	21 min
Aug 13, 8:44 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	46 min
Aug 13, 10:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	51 min
Aug 13, 10:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Hendry	49 min
Aug 13, 11:41 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		64 min
Aug 13, 11:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	30 min
Aug 13, 12:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades	43 min
Aug 13, 12:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	3 hr
Aug 13, 3:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.