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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Miami, FL

October 22, 2005Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 22, 2005, 1:49 AM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 22, 2005, 1:49 AM EDT (05:49 UTC)
Expired: Oct 22, 2005, 2:22 AM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 39 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1873 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 220550
TORMFL
FLC011-220645-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0012.051022T0549Z-051022T0645Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
149 AM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 245 AM EDT

* AT 144 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WILTON     
  MANORS AND OAKLAND PARK...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO
SEE. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT
MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR
HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR
REINFORCED SHELTER. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2604 8012 2619 8001 2633 8029 2620 8047

$$

CHRISTENSEN

2 follow-up statements

000
WWUS52 KMFL 220609
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
208 AM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

FLC011-220645-
/O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-051022T0645Z/
BROWARD FL-
208 AM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 AM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY...

AT 202 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR INTERSTATE 95 IN 
BETWEEN OAKLAND PARK AND LAUDERDALE LAKES...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 
MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SEA 
RANCH LAKES...SUNRISE...POMPANO BEACH...POMPANO BEACH 
AIRPORT...TAMARAC...PARKLAND... AND NORTH LAUDERDALE.

SOUTH FLORIDA TORNADOES MAY AT TIMES BE SMALL AND NARROW BUT THEY ARE
STILL DANGEROUS. THEY CAN EASILY FLIP A VEHICLE OR TRAILER OR CAUSE
LARGE TREES TO FALL. TAKE COVER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 2604 8012 2619 8001 2633 8029 2620 8047

$$
CHRISTENSEN
CHRISTENSEN

000
WWUS52 KMFL 220622
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
220 AM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

FLC011-220625-
/O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-051022T0645Z/
BROWARD FL-
220 AM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADO THAT
PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS DISSIPATED AND IS NO LONGER A THREAT...THUS
THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 2604 8012 2619 8001 2633 8029 2620 8047

$$

CHRISTENSEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 22, 3:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Broward	55 min
Oct 22, 5:36 PM EDT	Inland Hurricane Watch	MFL	Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more	46 hr

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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.