Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 2005, 2:13 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2005, 2:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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, 4:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 201813 TORMFL FLC011-201900- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0007.050920T1813Z-050920T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 213 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 208 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HOLLYWOOD...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COOPER CITY DAVIE WESTON INTERSECTION I-75 AND U.S. 27 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2598 8016 2601 8014 2627 8038 2605 8052 $$ DG
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMFL 201848 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 245 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 FLC011-201855- /O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050920T1900Z/ BROWARD FL- 245 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS DISSIPATED AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT. THUS...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2598 8016 2601 8014 2627 8038 2605 8052 $$ DG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Sep 20, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 44 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.