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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 2006, 12:40 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 9 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
- Jun 18, 2006, 12:40 PM EDT (16:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2006, 12:49 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 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), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1651 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMFL 181641 TORMFL FLC099-181700- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0004.060618T1640Z-060618T1700Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1240 PM EDT SUN JUN 18 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1236 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO EAST OF FEDERAL HIGHWAY IN BOCA RATON. MOVEMENT NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DELRAY BEACH BY 1240 PM EDT. LAT...LON 2636 8018 2646 8007 2650 8020 2639 8020 $$ GR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMFL 181649 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1248 PM EDT SUN JUN 18 2006 FLC099-181658- /O.CAN.KMFL.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060618T1700Z/ PALM BEACH FL- 1248 PM EDT SUN JUN 18 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IS CANCELLED... TOWER PERSONNEL AT THE POMPANO BEACH AIRPORT REPORTED THAT THE TORNADO HAD ENDED AT 1238 AM, THEREFORE THIS WARNING IS CANCELLED. LAT...LON 2636 8018 2646 8007 2650 8020 2639 8020 $$ GR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 12:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 17 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.