Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 625
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 8, 2005, 3:35 PM EDT for Collier County, Miami-Dade County, Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2005, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2005, 9:52 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Collier County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Key West radar (KBYX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EYW | Monroe | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 9:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 50 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 2 hr |
Nearby
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.