Tornado in Florida, September 10, 2005

Name: Tornado in Florida, September 10, 2005
Start: 2005-09-10T20:09
End: 2005-09-10T20:42
Location: Florida

September 10, 2005 · NWS MFL · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 10, 1:19 PM EST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 1:19 PM EST, 6 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
219 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2005

.DISCUSSION...
CURRENTLY, A TROUGH EXTENDS SW FROM OPHELIA ACROSS EXTREME S FLA
AND THIS HAS GENERATED AN INCREASE IN INSTABILITY AND LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE. THUS SCATTERED SHRA BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FAR
SE CST. WILL NO DOUBT SEE SOME LIGHTNING WITH THIS ACTIVITY AS THE
AFTERNOON WEARS ON. LOW LEVEL SFC FLOW HAS ALSO BECOME NE TO SE
BEHIND AND AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY AIDING IN SOME COVERGENCE WITH
THE STEERING FLOW STILL SW TO NE. WATER VAPOR SHOWS THIS FEATURE
NICELY WITH DRIER AIR ALOFT PERSISTING BEHIND THE TROUGH AROUND
LAKE OKEE. MAV GUIDANCE NUMBERS STILL LOOK BETTER THAN MET BUT
WILL NUDGE THE POPS UP A PERCENTAGE OR TWO AS THE TROUGH BOUNDARY
STAYS OVER THE SAME VICINITY THROUGH MONDAY. ETA OF COURSE STILL
HAS NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH OPHELIA AND ACTUALLY DISSIPATES IT
INTO AN OPEN TROUGH OVER THE SE U.S. SO ANOTHER REASON TO DISCOUNT
ITS NUMBERS FOR POPS. THE GFS DOES SHOW AS OPHELIA STAGGERS TO THE
NE AND THEN S AGAIN THE DRIER AIR COMES BACK TO ENVELOPE ALL OF
THE PENINSULA BY TUESDAY. HOWEVER, I DONT SEE THE REASONING FOR
THIS ERRATIC MOVEMENT AS OPHELIA SHOULD BE GETTING PICKED UP BY THE
UPSTREAM SHORTWAVE BY THAT TIME.

&&

.MARINE...
SWELLS BEGINNING TO AFFECT THE PALM BEACH AND TO A LESSER EXTENT
BROWARD WATERS BUT SEAS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. THE
GFS STILL BRINGS LARGER SWELLS IN SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY BUT
THIS IS ALL DEPENDANT ON THE FACT THE GFS STRENGTHENS OPHELIA. SO
WILL LEAVE CURRENT SWELL FORECAST ALONE FOR THE TIME BEING. AT ANY
RATE, SWELLS SHOULD BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BY TUESDAY AS OPHELIA MOVES
INLAND AND WEAKENS.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...
NO CONCERNS.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
WEST PALM BEACH  78  91  78  91 /  10  20  20  20
FORT LAUDERDALE  77  92  77  91 /  10  20  20  20
MIAMI            78  92  78  92 /  20  30  20  30
NAPLES           75  89  75  90 /  10  20  10  20

&&

.MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...NONE.
AM...NONE.
GM...NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 5:46 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
646 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2005

FLZ063-066>075-112300-
GLADES-HENDRY-PALM BEACH WESTERN-PALM BEACH EASTERN-
WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER-WESTERN BROWARD-
BROWARD METROPOLITAN-WESTERN DADE-DADE METROPOLITAN-
MAINLAND MONROE-
646 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SWELLS ORIGINATING FROM OLPHELIA WILL CONTINUE TO REACH PORTIONS OF
THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THEREFORE, RIP
CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY AT THE PALM BEACH
COUNTY COAST.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.MIAMIWEATHER.INFO.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 10, 8:04 PM EST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
904 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0857 PM     TORNADO          MIAMI BEACH             25.81N 80.13W
09/10/2005                   MIAMI-DADE         FL   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&
REPORTED BY MIC MIA

RADER

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:10 UTC.

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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Miami-Dade

When: September 10, 8:09 PM EST to 8:42 PM EST
Where: Miami-Dade County, Miami
Rating: F0
Path length: 3 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 25.767, -80.200

Tornado was sighted by law enforcement moving onshore near Bayfront Park. Thirty minutes later, emergency management reported roof damage to a commercial building on 2700 block of NW 17th Avenue. Trees fell down on wires, and traffic lights were down at intersections of NW 11 Ave and 29th Street and NW 17th Ave and 28th Street.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Florida in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Florida, 2005 Warnings in Florida, September 2005

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5474499.