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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Miami, FL

September 27, 2005Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2005, 5:35 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 8 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 27, 2005, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Sep 27, 2005, 5:43 PM EDT
In force
8 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), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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 nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 2005-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1824 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2005-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
1824 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 272136
TORMFL
FLC021-272200-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0011.050927T2135Z-050927T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
535 PM EDT TUE SEP 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 533 PM EDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE 
NAPLES AIRPORT BY AIRPORT PERSONNEL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BELLE MEADE

SOUTH FLORIDA TORNADOES MAY AT TIMES BE SMALL AND NARROW BUT THEY ARE
STILL DANGEROUS. THEY CAN EASILY FLIP A VEHICLE OR TRAILER OR CAUSE
LARGE TREES TO FALL. TAKE COVER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 2605 8172 2600 8157 2613 8148 2620 8162

$$

JR
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KMFL 272143
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
541 PM EDT TUE SEP 27 2005

FLC021-272151-
/O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050927T2200Z/
COLLIER FL-
541 PM EDT TUE SEP 27 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADO THAT 
PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS DISSIPATED AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT...THUS 
THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 2605 8172 2600 8157 2613 8148 2620 8162

$$

JR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 27, 4:20 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL55 min
Sep 27, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLHendry30 min
Sep 27, 5:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL53 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.