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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 3, 2006, 9:22 PM EST for Miami-Dade County, Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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, 9:22 PM EST (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2006, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 040223 TORMFL FLC086-087-040245- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0002.060204T0222Z-060204T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 922 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. NORTH CENTRAL MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 945 PM EST * AT 919 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LOOP ROAD EDUCATION CENTER...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONROE STATION... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LOOP ROAD EDUCATION CENTER FORTYMILE BEND MICCOSUKEE INDIAN VILLAGE 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 2575 8100 2565 8094 2564 8056 2589 8067 $$ DG
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMFL 040244 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 944 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006 FLC086-087-040254- /O.EXP.KMFL.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060204T0245Z/ MAINLAND MONROE FL-MIAMI-DADE FL- 944 PM EST FRI FEB 3 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE AND NORTH CENTRAL MAINLAND MONROE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 945 PM EST... AT 944 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE CIRCULATION WITHIN THE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORTYMILE BEND HAD WEAKENED. THUS...THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 2575 8100 2565 8094 2564 8056 2589 8067 $$ DG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 7:47 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 58 min | |
| Feb 3, 11:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 51 min |
| Feb 4, 12:17 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 58 min | |
| Feb 4, 12:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 17 min |
| Feb 4, 1:09 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 66 min | |
| Feb 4, 1:54 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 51 min | |
| Feb 4, 8:13 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 62 min | |
| Feb 4, 9:00 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 60 min | |
| Feb 4, 10:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry | 24 min |
| Feb 4, 11:05 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 85 min | |
| Feb 4, 1:09 PM EST | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 51 min | |
| Feb 4, 3:18 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 57 min | |
| Feb 4, 4:09 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr |
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.