Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 14
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 25, 2004, 10:35 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2004, 10:35 AM EST (15:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2004, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Broward County, FL, Collier County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 10:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry | 25 min |
| Feb 25, 12:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 53 min |
| 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 |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 3:45 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:06 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broward, Collier, Hendry, Martin, Monroe, Palm Beach | 114 min |
| Feb 25, 1:51 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Miami-Dade, Monroe | 114 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.