Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 1998, 3:51 PM EST for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 119 min. 4 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
- Feb 2, 1998, 3:51 PM EST (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 1998, 5:50 PM EST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 4:25 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Big Pine, FL | Two trees fell into house. |
| Feb 2, 5:25 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 71 | Duck Key, FL | Reported from Conch Key just north of Duck Key. |
| Feb 2, 5:35 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Marathon, FL | Recorded at C-MAN SMKF. |
| Feb 2, 5:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 85 | Duck Key, FL | Sustained wind 50 KTS at 1740 EST...Sustained 65 KTS at 1745...Gust to 85 KTS at 1750 EST. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 3:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 118 min |
| Feb 2, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 59 min |
| Feb 2, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 91 min |
| Feb 2, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 93 min |
| Feb 2, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 57 min |
| Feb 2, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 65 min |
| Feb 2, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 61 min |
| Feb 2, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 95 min |
| Feb 2, 6:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 61 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.