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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL

July 8, 2005Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2005, 9:18 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 50 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 8, 2005, 9:18 PM EDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2005, 10:08 PM EDT
In force: 50 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), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 8, 3:35 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 19 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1720 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 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 090119
TORMFL
FLC086-090215-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0002.050709T0118Z-050709T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
918 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 916 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF
  ELLIOT KEY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF KEY BISCAYNE...MOVING
  NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KEY BISCAYNE BY 925 PM EDT
  KENDALL BY 935 PM EDT
  WEST MIAMI BY 940 PM EDT
  SWEETWATER BY 945 PM EDT

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2543 8016 2556 8002 2591 8032 2596 8057
      2597 8087 2564 8084

$$

BAXTER

2 follow-up statements

000
WWUS52 KMFL 090143
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
932 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005

FLC086-090215-
/O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050709T0215Z/
MIAMI-DADE FL-
932 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY...

AT 930 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE 
STORMCAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE TORNADO HAS WEAKENED AS IT MOVED 
ONSHORE NEAR DOWNTOWN MIAMI. HOWEVER...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
ADDITIONAL STORM CELLS SHOWING ROTATION APPROACHING THE COAST IN THE 
SAME GENERAL AREA AND INTO NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF MIAMI DADE COUNTY 
FROM MIAMI BEACH TO AVENTURA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING 
CONTINUES IN EFFECT THROUGH 1015 PM. THESE STORMS ARE PART OF A 
SPIRAL BAND ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE DENNIS THAT IS CURRENTLY 
MOVING NORTH AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS OF MIAMI 
DADE COUNTY. RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ON THE ALERT AS ANY OF 
THIS ACTIVITY IS CAPABLE OF DEVELOPING ROTATION AND/OR A TORNADO 
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. ADDITIONALLY...WIND GUSTS IN 
EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. OR YOU CAN
ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT
305.229.4522 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2543 8016 2556 8002 2591 8032 2595 8057
      2597 8087 2564 8084

$$

BB

000
WWUS52 KMFL 090208
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1006 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005

FLC086-090216-
/O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050709T0215Z/
MIAMI-DADE FL-
1006 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SPIRAL BAND THAT 
PROMPTED TORNADO WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THUS THE 
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM EDT SATURDAY 
MORNING FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2543 8016 2556 8002 2591 8032 2595 8057
      2597 8087 2564 8084

$$

BAXTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 9:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		94 min
Jul 8, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach	62 min
Jul 8, 10:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach	64 min
Jul 8, 11:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		89 min
Jul 8, 11:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	37 min
Jul 8, 11:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach	32 min
Jul 9, 12:00 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		45 min
Jul 9, 12:43 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		62 min
Jul 9, 1:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		30 min
Jul 9, 4:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		66 min
Jul 9, 4:39 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		96 min
Jul 9, 6:19 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		116 min
Jul 9, 6:29 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
Jul 9, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		113 min
Jul 9, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		86 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.