Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1998, 10:58 PM EST for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- Nov 4, 1998, 10:58 PM EST (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 1998, 11:30 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collier County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 11:20 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Everglades City, FL | A tornado touched down near the intersection of U.S. 41 and Highway 29 damaging trees along its path as it moved to the north. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 607 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 17.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
627 WFUS1 KMIA 050359 RRA TORMIA FLC021-050430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1058 PM EST WED NOV 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 1130 PM EST * AT 1055 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER SOUTHERN COLLIER COUNTY NEAR CARNESTOWN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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 VEHICLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 9:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 44 min |
| Nov 4, 10:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 44 min |
| Nov 4, 11:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 32 min |
| Nov 5, 12:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 32 min |
| Nov 5, 1:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 2 hr |
| Nov 5, 1:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 2 hr |
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.