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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Key West, FL
NWS Key West, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 12, 2007, 8:49 AM EST for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 16 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
- Feb 12, 2007, 8:49 AM EST (13:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2007, 9:05 AM EST
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Key West, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KKEY 121351 TORKEY FLC087-121405- /O.NEW.KKEY.TO.W.0003.070212T1349Z-070212T1405Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 849 AM EST MON FEB 12 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MIDDLE KEYS IN MONROE COUNTY IN FLORIDA UPPER KEYS IN MONROE COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 905 AM EST * AT 847 AM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A ROTATING THUNDERSTORM NEAR CRAIG KEY...MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LOWER MATECUMBE KEY WATERSPOUTS THAT MOVE ONSHORE ARE DANGEROUS AND CAN BE DEADLY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST AT 3 0 5...2 9 5...1 3 1 6...EXTENSION 3. LAT...LON 2480 8090 2475 8076 2492 8068 2498 8081 $$ BS
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KKEY 121404
SVSKEY
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL
904 AM EST MON FEB 12 2007
FLC087-121415-
/O.EXP.KKEY.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070212T1405Z/
MIDDLE KEYS IN MONROE FL-UPPER KEYS IN MONROE FL-
904 AM EST MON FEB 12 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR UPPER KEYS IN MONROE AND MIDDLE KEYS IN
MONROE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 905 AM EST...
THE ROTATING THUNDERSTORM NEAR LONG KEY HAS WEAKENED. THEREFORE...
THE TORNADO WARNING FOR THE UPPER AND MIDDLE KEYS WILL BE ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE AT 905 AM EST.
LAT...LON 2484 8072 2483 8076 2480 8078 2479 8084
2483 8081 2484 8075 2488 8071 2491 8071
2491 8069 2491 8069
$$
BSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Key West, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 12:31 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 29 min | |
| Feb 12, 2:31 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 59 min | |
| Feb 12, 3:34 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 56 min | |
| Feb 12, 4:26 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 64 min | |
| Feb 12, 6:09 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 66 min | |
| Feb 12, 7:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 8:13 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 62 min | |
| Feb 12, 8:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | KEY | Monroe | 30 min |
| Feb 12, 8:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | KEY | Monroe | 30 min |
| Feb 12, 9:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 10:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 10:25 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 65 min | |
| Feb 12, 11:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 12:14 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 2:18 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 45 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.