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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2007, 7:25 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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
- May 6, 2007, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2007, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 830 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMFL 062326
TORMFL
FLC086-070000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0009.070506T2325Z-070507T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
725 PM EDT SUN MAY 6 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 724 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
SOUTHWESTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF
FLAMINGO...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL SOUTHWESTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BY 740 PM EDT
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.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 2529 8066 2534 8079 2528 8087 2517 8091
2518 8084 2514 8075
$$
STRASSBERGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 37 min |
| May 6, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 45 min |
| May 6, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 45 min |
| May 6, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry | 36 min |
| May 6, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 45 min |
| May 6, 5:32 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 88 min | |
| May 6, 5:33 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 62 hr |
| May 6, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 67 min |
| May 6, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 63 min | |
| May 6, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 30 min |
| May 6, 5:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 43 min |
| May 6, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach | 61 min |
| May 6, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 33 min |
| May 6, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 48 min |
| May 6, 6:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 37 min | |
| May 6, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry | 57 min |
| May 6, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 32 min |
| May 6, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward, Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach | 53 min |
| May 6, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 38 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.