Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 2006, 7:58 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 17 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2006, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:05 PM EDT | TORNADO | 1 E Deerfield Beach, FL | WATERSPOUTS WITNESSED BY SEVERAL PEOPLE CAME ONSHORE NEAR THE DEERFIELD BEACH PIER. IT LASTED ABOUT A MINUTE AS A MINIMAL TORNADO ONSHORE BEFORE DISSIPATING. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 212359 TORMFL FLC099-220015- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0007.060821T2358Z-060822T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 758 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 757 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO EAST OF DEERFIELD BEACH JUST EAST OF THE PIER MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. LAT...LON 2625 8008 2640 8005 2646 8011 2629 8014 $$ GR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:42 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 48 min | |
| Aug 21, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 53 min | |
| Aug 21, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 24 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.