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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Miami, FL

November 13, 2005Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 13, 2005, 5:39 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 13, 2005, 5:39 PM EST (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Nov 13, 2005, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Nov 13, 5:39 PM EST	TORNADO	Boca Raton, FL	TWO SKYWARN SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED SEVERAL TORNADOES AND FUNNEL CLOUDS MOVING ON SHORE AND OVER BOCA RATON...MAINLY NEAR FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY BETWEEN GLADES ROAD AND YAMATO ROAD...MOVING WEST. NO DAMAGE REPORTED AT THIS TIME.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 132241
TORMFL
FLC099-132315-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0016.051113T2239Z-051113T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
539 PM EST SUN NOV 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 615 PM EST

* AT 536 PM EST...A SKYWARN STORM SPOTTER OBSERVED SEVERAL SMALL 
TORNADOES NEAR BOCA RATON. RADAR INDICATED THE SHOWERS SPAWNING THE 
TORNADOES WERE MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BOCA RATON

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 2640 8017 2642 8014 2642 8007 2636 8007
      2633 8011 2634 8021 2637 8024 2637 8031
      2640 8031

$$

HANDEL

2 follow-up statements

000
WWUS52 KMFL 132255
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
553 PM EST SUN NOV 13 2005

FLC099-132315-
/O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-051113T2315Z/
PALM BEACH FL-
553 PM EST SUN NOV 13 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM EST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY...

AT 548 PM EST...MULTIPLE SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTERS AND THE PUBLIC 
HAVE REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS IN THE VICINITY OF FLORIDA ATLANTIC 
UNIVERSITY SOUTH CAMPUS IN BOCA RATON. THIS TORNADO IS MOVING WEST 
AT 10 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BOCA WEST AND BOCA RATON

TORNADOES CAN EASILY FLIP A VEHICLE OR TRAILER OR CAUSE LARGE TREES 
TO FALL. TAKE COVER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 2640 8017 2642 8014 2642 8007 2636 8007
      2633 8011 2634 8021 2637 8024 2637 8031
      2640 8031

$$
HANDEL

000
WWUS52 KMFL 132318
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
615 PM EST SUN NOV 13 2005

FLC099-132330-
/O.EXP.KMFL.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-051113T2315Z/
PALM BEACH FL-
615 PM EST SUN NOV 13 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY EXPIRES AT
615 PM EST...

NO FURTHER REPORTS OF WATERSPOUTS...TORNADOES...OR FUNNEL CLOUDS 
HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS ARE APPROACHING THE BOCA 
RATON AREA FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN...BUT ADDITIONAL TORNADOES ARE 
NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN 
MIAMI BY CALLING 305.229.4522.

LAT...LON 2640 8017 2642 8014 2642 8007 2636 8007
      2633 8011 2634 8021 2637 8024 2637 8031
      2640 8031

$$

HANDEL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 13, 5:04 AM EST	Marine Weather Statement	MFL		61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.