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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 2005, 5:01 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 44 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
- Sep 20, 2005, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2005, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 202103 TORMFL FLC021-087-202145- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0010.050920T2101Z-050920T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 501 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. NORTHWESTERN MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHOKOLOSKEE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... CHOKOLOSKEE EVERGLADES CITY GOODLAND MARCO ISLAND SEEK SHELTER IN THE INTERIOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2565 8125 2580 8115 2625 8188 2601 8203 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMFL 202131 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 528 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 FLC021-087-202145- /O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-050920T2145Z/ COLLIER FL-MAINLAND MONROE FL- 528 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR MAINLAND MONROE AND SOUTHWESTERN COLLIER COUNTIES... AT 526 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF EVERGLADES CITY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. RADAR ALSO INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHOKOLOSKEE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BELLE MEADE...ROYAL PALM HAMMOCK...PORT OF THE ISLANDS...MARCO ISLAND AND GOODLAND. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2565 8125 2580 8115 2625 8188 2601 8203 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 2:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 35 min |
| Sep 20, 2:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 36 min |
| Sep 20, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 30 min |
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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.