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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL

August 21, 2006Palm Beach County, Florida

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 21, 8:05 PM EDTTORNADO1 E Deerfield Beach, FLWATERSPOUTS 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-08-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 396 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 8:42 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL48 min
Aug 21, 3:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL53 min
Aug 21, 7:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL24 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.