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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 1998, 7:34 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min. 3 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, 7:34 PM EST (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 1998, 8:35 PM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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, 8:11 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | (Hst)Homestead Afb, FL | |
| Feb 2, 8:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Cutler Ridge, FL | |
| Feb 2, 8:22 PM EST | Tornado F2 | (Mia)Miami Intl, FL | At 2022 est f1-f2 tornado touched down nw 36th st/curtis parkway damaging about 12 planes at mia international airport. The mia asos recorded a gust of 90 knots. The f2 tornado crossed through virginia gardens and south miami springs in a 100-200 yard path dam |
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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
557 WFUS1 KMIA 030036 RRA TORMIA AMZ630-651-671-FLC025-030135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 734 PM EST MON FEB 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA ...DADE COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 734 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENDALL OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICHMOND HEIGHTS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... KENDALL BY ABOUT 745 PM EST OLYMPIA HEIGHTS BY ABOUT 750 PM EST CORAL GABLES BY ABOUT 755 PM EST WESTCHESTER BY ABOUT 755 PM EST 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 7:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 62 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.