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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL

February 3, 2006Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 3, 2006, 4:33 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 19 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
Feb 3, 2006, 4:33 PM EST (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Feb 3, 2006, 4:52 PM EST
In force
19 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), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-02-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 453 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-02-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 152 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMFL 032133
TORMFL
FLC099-032215-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0001.060203T2133Z-060203T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
433 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  NORTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 430 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR JUPITER...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  JUPITER

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY 
BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. 
GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE 
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2685 8023 2681 8019 2685 8004 2696 8009
      2695 8018

$$

DG
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KMFL 032152
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
451 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006

FLC099-032201-
/O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-060203T2215Z/
PALM BEACH FL-
451 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM 
PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAS MOVED OFF THE COAST AND INTO THE 
ATLANTIC WATERS. THUS...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PALM 
BEACH COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 2685 8023 2681 8019 2685 8004 2696 8009
      2695 8018

$$

DG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 3, 3:58 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL62 min
Feb 3, 4:36 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL39 min
Feb 3, 4:56 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL64 min
Feb 3, 6:00 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL60 min
Feb 3, 6:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier35 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.