Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2012, 3:27 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 11 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
- Mar 31, 2012, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2012, 3:38 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 754 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
365
WFUS52 KMFL 311927
TORMFL
FLC086-312015-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0001.120331T1927Z-120331T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
327 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MIAMI BEACH...MIAMI...
* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
* AT 325 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MARLINS
STADIUM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
LITTLE HAVANA...
LIBERTY CITY...
LITTLE HAITI...
MIAMI BEACH...
NORTH BAY VILLAGE...
AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM
EXTERIOR WALLS AND WINDOWS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF
STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.
&&
LAT...LON 2589 8011 2580 8011 2576 8012 2573 8015
2573 8017 2574 8017 2574 8020 2573 8022
2573 8024 2579 8030 2591 8012 2591 8010
2590 8010
TIME...MOT...LOC 1927Z 244DEG 18KT 2577 8023
$$
GREGORIA1 follow-up statement
804
WWUS52 KMFL 311938
SVSMFL
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
338 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
FLC086-311946-
/O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120331T2015Z/
MIAMI-DADE FL-
338 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE ROTATION
IN THE THUNDERSTORM OVER MIAMI HAS WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM MIAMI TO MIAMI
BEACH WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 2589 8011 2580 8011 2576 8012 2573 8015
2573 8017 2574 8017 2574 8020 2573 8022
2573 8024 2579 8030 2591 8012 2591 8010
2590 8010
TIME...MOT...LOC 1936Z 244DEG 18KT 2579 8018
$$
GREGORIAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Miami-Dade | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 33 min | |
| Mar 31, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 35 min | |
| Mar 31, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 24 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.