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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL

July 16, 2004Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2004, 2:40 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 65 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
Jul 16, 2004, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1186 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 161840
TORMIA
FLC086-161945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
239 PM EDT FRI JUL 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NORTH OF 
  CORAL GABLES...NEAR MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 10 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL AFFECT...
  MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
  LIBERTY CITY.
  OPA-LOCKA.
  VIRGINIA KEY.
  LITTLE HAITI.
  SOUTH BEACH.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY
BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS.
GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2584 8040 2567 8031 2580 7989 2604 8001

$$

PS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade65 min
Jul 16, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade62 min
Jul 16, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward57 min
Jul 16, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL64 min
Jul 16, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL67 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.