Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1998, 5:33 AM EST for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 9, 1998, 5:33 AM EST (10:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1998, 6:05 AM EST
- In force
- 32 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 10:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 5:45 AM EST | Tornado F1 | Hallandale, FL | Tornado touched down near NW 8th Ave and I-95. The tornado moved east nearly along Hallandale Beach Blvd lifting near the Diplomat Golf Course. A railroad crossing signal, power poles and lines and several trees were downed. |
| Mar 9, 6:00 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Pembroke Pines, FL | Automobiles were tossed and large trees were downed. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1605 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
946 WFUS1 KMIA 091034 RRA TORMIA FLC011-091105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 533 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA ...BROWARD COUNTY AT 532 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 21 MILES WEST OF DAVIE OR 14 MILES WEST OF WESTON MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... COOPER CITY BY ABOUT 540 AM EST NORTH PERRY AIRPORT BY ABOUT 545 AM EST MIRAMAR BY ABOUT 545 AM EST DAVIE BY ABOUT 545 AM EST PEMBROKE PINES BY ABOUT 545 AM EST PLANTATION BY ABOUT 545 AM EST 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 VEHICLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 59 min |
| Mar 9, 3:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Glades, Hendry | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 4:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 31 min |
| Mar 9, 4:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 4:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 64 min |
| Mar 9, 5:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 21 min |
| Mar 9, 6:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 29 min |
| Mar 9, 6:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 7:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 8:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 91 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.