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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 3:05 PM EDT for Collier County, Hendry County, Florida. It was in force for 25 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, 3:05 PM EDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Collier County, FL, Hendry County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 131905 TORMIA FLC021-051-131930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 304 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. NORTHERN COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 304 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 29 MILES SOUTH OF IMMOKALEE...MOVING NORTH AT 65 MPH. * THE STORM WILL AFFECT... IMMOKALEE BY 325 PM EDT. FELDA BY 330 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 200 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2602 8170 2597 8151 2664 8127 2670 8151 $$ 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, 12:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Glades | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 12:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Glades, Hendry | 3 hr |
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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.