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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL

June 17, 1996Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1996, 4:49 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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: Jun 17, 1996, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 1928 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMIA 172050
TORMIA
FLC021-172130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
449 PM EDT MON JUN 17 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN COLLIER COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE MAIN BRIDGE CONNECTING
THE MAINLAND TO MARCO ISLAND. THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS CLOSE TO TOUCHING
WATER AND BECOMING A WATERSPOUT. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER
STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE
PILLOWS TO PROTECT YOUR HEAD. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A
SAFE REFUGE FROM A TORNADO. MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. DO
NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR VECHICLE.
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 3:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.