Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 21, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2006, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 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 220016 TORMFL FLC011-220045- /O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0009.060822T0015Z-060822T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 815 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA. * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 814 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WATERSPOUTS FROM BOCA RATON TO DERRFIELD BEACH THAT MAY COME ASHORE AS A TORNADO. MOVEMENT WILL BE NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. LAT...LON 2617 7997 2629 7997 2632 8013 2625 8016 $$ GR
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KMFL 220034 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 830 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 FLC011-220045- /O.CON.KMFL.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060822T0045Z/ BROWARD FL- 830 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY... AT 827 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED THAT A WATERSPOUT THAT WAS EAST OF THE DEERFIELD BEACH PIER, REACHED LAND JUST NORTH OF THE PIER. THIS ACTIVITY HAS WEAKENED SINCE 825 PM BUT ADDITIONAL WATERSPOUTS MAY FORM THAT COULD REACH LAND, THEREFORE THE WARNING CONTINUES. MOVEMENT WILL BE TO THE NORTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. LAT...LON 2617 7997 2629 7997 2632 8013 2625 8016 $$ GR
000 WWUS52 KMFL 220045 SVSMFL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 842 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 FLC011-220052- /O.EXP.KMFL.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060822T0045Z/ BROWARD FL- 842 PM EDT MON AUG 21 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 845 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THE WATERSPOUTS OFFSHORE AND THAT CAME ON LAND NEAR DEERFIELD BEACH HAD WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 2617 7997 2629 7997 2632 8013 2625 8016 $$ GR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 13 min |
| Aug 21, 8:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 36 min | |
| Aug 22, 3:49 AM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 8 hr |
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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.