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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2007, 3:14 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2007, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2007, 3:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 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), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 3:20 PM EDT | TORNADO | 2 W West Kendall, FL | LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFIRMED A SMALL TORNADO OVER UNPOPULATED AREA A FEW MILES TO THE WEST OF WEST KENDALL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 21, 11:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 1339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1124 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 211915 TORMFL FLC086-212015- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0015.070721T1914Z-070721T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 314 PM EDT SAT JUL 21 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 313 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE REDLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 TO 70 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NARANJA... INTERSECTION KROME AND KENDALL DRIVE... GOULDS... PRINCETON... THE HAMMOCKS... WEST PERRINE... AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. TRAINED SPOTTERS HAVE ALREADY REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR WEST KENDALL. 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. SOUTH FLORIDA TORNADOES MAY AT TIMES BE SMALL AND NARROW BUT THEY ARE STILL DANGEROUS. THEY CAN EASILY FLIP A VEHICLE OR TRAILER OR CAUSE LARGE TREES TO FALL. TAKE COVER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2568 8067 2550 8064 2551 8028 2577 8032 $$ 70/DD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMFL 211948 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 348 PM EDT SAT JUL 21 2007 FLC086-211957- /O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-070721T2015Z/ MIAMI-DADE FL- 348 PM EDT SAT JUL 21 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADIC CIRCULATION ACROSS CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY HAS DISSIPATED. THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE AREA. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2568 8067 2550 8064 2551 8028 2577 8032 $$ 70/DD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 8:02 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 58 min | |
| Jul 20, 8:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 25 min | |
| Jul 20, 9:39 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 66 min | |
| Jul 21, 10:32 AM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 58 min | |
| Jul 21, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Hendry | 53 min |
| Jul 21, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 58 min |
| Jul 21, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Jul 21, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Hendry, Palm Beach | 50 min |
| Jul 21, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 2:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Palm Beach | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 56 min |
| Jul 21, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 37 min |
| Jul 21, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 55 min |
| Jul 21, 3:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 15 min |
| Jul 21, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 7:31 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 59 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.