Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 1998, 7:23 PM EST for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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
- Feb 2, 1998, 7:23 PM EST (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 1998, 8:25 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 7:52 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 73 | Key Largo, FL | Recorded at C-MAN MLRF. |
| Feb 2, 8:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 104 | Long Key, FL | Recorded at C-MAN LONF1. Not reported in real time as primary sensor blew away and was found down the beach. |
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
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496 WFUS1 KMIA 030025 RRA TORMIA AMZ631-652>654-672>675-FLC087-030125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 723 PM EST MON FEB 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA ...MONROE UPPER KEYS INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS ...MONROE MIDDLE KEYS INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS ...MONROE LOWER KEYS INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 720 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO POSSIBLE TORNADOES... ONE JUST SOUTHEAST OF CRAIG KEY AND ANOTHER 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAHIA HONDA. THESE WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH OF THE KEYS ACROSS FLORIDA BAY AND INTO MAINLAND MONROE AND DADE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STURDY STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SAFETY IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 58 min |
| Feb 2, 7:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 52 min |
| Feb 2, 7:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 61 min |
| Feb 2, 8:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 63 min |
| Feb 2, 8:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 61 min |
| Feb 2, 8:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 59 min |
| Feb 2, 8:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 63 min |
| Feb 2, 10:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 62 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.