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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 2005, 2:54 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2005, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 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), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 201855 TORMFL FLC086-087-201930- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0008.050920T1854Z-050920T1930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 254 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 252 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLAMINGO... MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2511 8087 2517 8082 2552 8123 2534 8137 $$ DG
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMFL 201913 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 311 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 FLC086-087-201930- /O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050920T1930Z/ MAINLAND MONROE FL-MIAMI-DADE FL- 311 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MIAMI-DADE AND SOUTHERN MAINLAND MONROE COUNTIES... AT 308 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLAMINGO...MOVING WEST AT 40 MPH. RADAR ALSO INDICATED A POSSIBLE DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE COUNTY 10 MILES EAST OF FLAMINGO MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2511 8087 2517 8082 2552 8123 2534 8137 $$
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, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 30 min |
| Sep 20, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 44 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.