Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1998, 1:42 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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
- Sep 25, 1998, 1:42 PM EDT (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 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 17:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 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
- 280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
697 WFUS1 KMIA 251742 RRA TORMIA AMZ651-671-FLC011-251830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 142 PM EDT FRI SEP 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 230 PM EDT MARINERS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT OFF THE COAST OF BROWARD OFF HALLENDALE BEACH MOVING WEST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... HALLENDALE AND HOLLYWOOD BY 145 PM... DANIA BY 150 PM. 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. JGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 9:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 44 min |
| Sep 24, 9:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 46 min |
| Sep 24, 9:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 44 min |
| Sep 25, 6:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 115 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.