Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL
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 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.
- 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
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
$$
DG1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KMFL 032152
SVSMFL
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
451 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006
FLC099-032201-
/O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-060203T2215Z/
PALM BEACH FL-
451 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM
PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAS MOVED OFF THE COAST AND INTO THE
ATLANTIC WATERS. THUS...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PALM
BEACH COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 2685 8023 2681 8019 2685 8004 2696 8009
2695 8018
$$
DGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 3:58 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 62 min | |
| Feb 3, 4:36 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 39 min | |
| Feb 3, 4:56 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 64 min | |
| Feb 3, 6:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 60 min | |
| Feb 3, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 35 min |
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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.