Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2004, 10:50 AM EST for 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
- Feb 25, 2004, 10:50 AM EST (15:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2004, 11:15 AM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hendry 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 251550 TORMIA FLC051-251615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1049 AM EST WED FEB 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE TOWN OF DEVILS GARDEN * UNTIL 1115 AM EST * AT 1046 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEVILS GARDEN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF FELDA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2657 8139 2645 8123 2667 8092 2676 8121 $$ RLP
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, 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, 1:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 42 min |
| 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.