Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 1998, 8:29 PM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 61 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
- Feb 2, 1998, 8:29 PM EST (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 1998, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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, 8:34 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Miramar, FL | At 2034 est the f1 tornadoes crossed the dade-broward counties line and damaged a strip shopping center in miramar. The multiple tornadoes moved across north perry airport at 2036 est where 40 aircraft were destroyed and 40 aircraft were damaged. The tornadoes |
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, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.
795 WFUS1 KMIA 030130 RRA TORMIA AMZ630-651-671-FLC011-025-030230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 829 PM EST MON FEB 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA ...EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS ...EASTERN DADE COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 825 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES. RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO NEAR OPA-LOCAK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. RESIDENTS IN HOLLYWOOD...DANIA...AND FORT LAUDERDALE SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM. MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAS JUST REPORTED A WIND GUST OF 104 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 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, 8:31 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.