Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1998, 6:06 AM EST for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 9, 1998, 6:06 AM EST (11:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1998, 6:35 AM EST
- In force
- 29 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 11:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.1 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.
114 WFUS1 KMIA 091108 RRA TORMIA FLC011-091135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 606 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA ...EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY AT 604 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER NORTHERN DADE COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE HOLLYWOOD AREA BY 615 AM AND CONTINUE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. 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, 5:33 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 32 min |
| Mar 9, 5:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.