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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL

April 8, 1996Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1996, 1:57 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 1996, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Broward County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMIA 081759
TORMIA
FLC011-081900-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
157 PM EDT MON APR 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BROWARD COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 150 PM INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING IN A THUNDERSTORM NEAR I-75 IN
SOUTHWEST BROWARD COUNTY ON THE WEST SIDE OF MIRAMAR.
A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS ALSO BEEN SPOTTED NEAR THIS STORM
AND PEOPLE NEAR THE STORMS PATH SHOULD BE ALERT
IN CASE IT TOUCHES GROUND.
 
THE STORM WILL MOVE EAST OVER AREAS IN AND AROUND
MIRAMAR...PEMBROKE PINES...HOLLYWOOD...AND COUNTYLINE
AREAS OF ADJACENT DADE COUNTY.
 
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN REPORT THE
SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMjENT AGENCY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLMiami-Dade76 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.