Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2006, 2:30 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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 20, 2006, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2006, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2024 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 201831 TORMFL FLC099-201915- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0005.060620T1830Z-060620T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 230 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 227 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR SOUTH BAY...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SOUTH BAY. OKEELANTA. 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 2658 8058 2676 8061 2670 8087 2651 8086 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMFL 201915 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 315 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 FLC099-201923- /O.EXP.KMFL.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-060620T1915Z/ PALM BEACH FL- 315 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AT 315 PM EDT... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOW TO EXPIRED FOR WEST CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY. LAT...LON 2658 8058 2676 8061 2670 8087 2651 8086 $$ BAXTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Hendry | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 29 min |
| Jun 20, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 86 min | |
| Jun 20, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 50 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.