Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 12:17 PM EDT for Glades County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 13, 2004, 12:17 PM EDT (16:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Glades County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -117 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 131617 TORMIA FLC043-131700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1217 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN GLADES COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1217 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO OVER EASTERN GLADES COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE STORM WILL AFFECT... BRIGHTON SEMINOLE RESERVATION BY 1230 PM EDT. BUCKHEAD RIDGE BY 1235 PM EDT. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2685 8110 2687 8090 2750 8092 2748 8120 $$ 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, 11:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry | 39 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, 12:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Glades, Hendry | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry | 25 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.