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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Miami, FL

June 9, 1996Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 6:00 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Ft Lauderdle Hlywd A, FL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMIA 092115
TORMIA
FLC011-092215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
515 PM EDT SUN JUN 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 515 PM INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST BROWARD COUNTY
WHICH MAY BE DEVELOPING TORNADO ACTIVITY.
 
PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST BROWARD...FROM HOLLYWOOD AND
HALLANDALE AREAS OVER AND INCLUDING ALL OF THE
FT. LAUDERDALE AREA...SHOULD REMAIN IN A SAFE PLACE
UNTIL THESE STORMS WEAKEN.
 
EXJTREME RAINS WILL ALSO BE CAUSING SIGNFICANT
STREET FLOODING IN THE AREA.
 
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE SHELTER...THEN REPORT THE
SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Glades	66 min
Jun 9, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	61 min
Jun 9, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	59 min
Jun 9, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	56 min
Jun 9, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	63 min
Jun 9, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.