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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1987, 4:41 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1987, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1987, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1093 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMIA 272041
TORMIA
FLC011-025-272145-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
441 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
...SOUTHEASTERN BROWARD...DADE
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR NW 41ST AND 137TH AVE BY THE DADE COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE. THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AND HAS NOW DISSIPATED.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE
IMMEDIATELY..AND YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICE.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 240 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1987 A FEW WATERSPOUTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OFFSHORE EXTREME NORTHERN BROWARD COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR. RADAR INDICATED SOME HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES OFFSHORE FT LAUDERDALE AND TO THE NORTHEAST FOR 50 MILES. BOATERS SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR. ELSEWHERE A FEW SHOWERS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED ABOUT THE PENINSULA AROUND WEST PALM BEACH...AROUND THE MIAMI AREA..AND OVER FLORIDA BAY NORTH OF THE LOWER KEYS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:42 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 335 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1987 A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM THE WESTERN END OF GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND TO JUST OFFSHORE THE MIAMI AREA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STORNG AND GUSTY WINDS. THOSE IN EASTERN DADE AND BROWARD COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH MARINE INTERESTS WHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER IN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT DADE COUNTY DOWN TO THE LOWER KEYS...JUST OFFSHORE PALM BEACH COUNTY AND OVER THE SOUTHERN TIP OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE. ALL THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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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.