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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 1998, 10:18 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 1998, 10:18 PM EST (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 1998, 11:20 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
319 WFUS1 KMIA 030319 RRA TORMIA FLC099-030420- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1018 PM EST MON FEB 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1120 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA ...NORTHERN PALM BEACH COUNTY AT 1021 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SHORT LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF PALM BEACH COUNTY NEAR CANAL POINT. A REPORT WAS RECEIVED AT 10 PM OF A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN LAKESIDE IN EASTERN GLADES COUNTY. MOVEMENT WILL BE NORTHEAST AT 45 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, 8:29 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.