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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2005, 2:14 AM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 53 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
- Oct 24, 2005, 2:14 AM EDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2005, 3:07 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 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), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 14 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 16.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 240615 TORMFL FLC021-240715- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0014.051024T0614Z-051024T0715Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 214 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 315 AM EDT * AT 213 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHOKOLOSKEE...MOVING NORTH AT 75 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GOODLAND ROYAL PALM HAMMOCK MARCO ISLAND BELLE MEADE NAPLES NORTH NAPLES VANDERBILT 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 2553 8155 2559 8136 2638 8160 2630 8192 $$ HANDEL
4 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KMFL 240633 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 233 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 FLC021-240715- /O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-051024T0715Z/ COLLIER FL- 233 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR WESTERN COLLIER COUNTY... AT 230 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARCO ISLAND...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 65 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ROYAL PALM HAMMOCK BY 240 AM EDT BELLE MEADE BY 245 AM EDT EAST NAPLES...LELY...SOUTH NAPLES AND NAPLES BY 250 AM EDT PELICAN BAY AND NORTH NAPLES BY 255 AM EDT VANDERBILT BEACH AND QUAIL CREEK ESTATES BY 300 AM EDT IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 2580 8168 2583 8148 2635 8166 2630 8192 $$ HANDEL
000 WWUS52 KMFL 240648 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 247 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 FLC021-240715- /O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-051024T0715Z/ COLLIER FL- 247 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR WEST CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY... AT 246 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO NEAR BELLE MEADE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NAPLES...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 60 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SOUTH NAPLES AND EAST NAPLES BY 250 AM EDT NORTH NAPLES AND NAPLES BY 255 AM EDT PELICAN BAY...VANDERBILT BEACH AND QUAIL CREEK ESTATES BY 300 AM EDT 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. 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 2596 8174 2599 8162 2634 8173 2631 8193 $$ HANDEL
000 WWUS52 KMFL 240658 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 257 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 FLC021-240715- /O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-051024T0715Z/ COLLIER FL- 257 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR WEST CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY... AT 252 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO NEAR NAPLES MOVING NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PELICAN BAY...VANDERBILT BEACH AND QUAIL CREEK ESTATES BY 305 AM EDT PEOPLE IN THE NAPLES METRO AREA SHOULD MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING NOW REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT 305.229.4522. LAT...LON 2596 8174 2599 8162 2634 8173 2631 8193 $$ HANDEL
000 WWUS52 KMFL 240707 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 306 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 FLC021-240716- /O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-051024T0715Z/ COLLIER FL- 306 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL COLLIER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADO THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM EDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2596 8174 2599 8162 2634 8173 2631 8193 $$ HANDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 11:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 62 min | |
| Oct 24, 1:37 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 53 min | |
| Oct 24, 4:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 91 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.