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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL

May 26, 1994Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1994, 5:51 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1994, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Key West, FL at 12:00Z on 1994-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 448 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Key West, FL at 12:00Z on 1994-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
448 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.