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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Miami, FL

August 26, 2012Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2012, 9:23 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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 26, 2012, 9:23 PM EDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2012, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2399 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

174 
WFUS52 KMFL 270123
TORMFL
FLC099-270145-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0037.120827T0123Z-120827T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
923 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LAKE WORTH...DELRAY BEACH...BOYNTON
  BEACH...

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 921 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR OCEAN
  RIDGE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH. %%

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BOYNTON BEACH...
  LAKE WORTH...
  GREENACRES CITY...
  HAVERHILL...
  AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...AWAY FROM
EXTERIOR WALLS AND WINDOWS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF
STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

&&

LAT...LON 2655 8004 2643 8006 2654 8023 2672 8012
      2659 8003 2655 8003
TIME...MOT...LOC 0123Z 132DEG 40KT 2650 8006

$$

GARCIA

1 follow-up statement

413 
WWUS52 KMFL 270140
SVSMFL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
940 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2012

FLC099-270150-
/O.EXP.KMFL.TO.W.0037.000000T0000Z-120827T0145Z/
PALM BEACH FL-
940 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 945 PM EDT...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADO HAS
DISSIPATED. THUS THE TORNADO WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 945 PM EDT.

LAT...LON 2655 8004 2643 8006 2654 8023 2672 8012
      2659 8003 2655 8003
TIME...MOT...LOC 0140Z 132DEG 40KT 2662 8022

$$

BAXTER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	44 min
Aug 26, 8:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	112 min
Aug 26, 9:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	23 min
Aug 26, 9:10 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	MFL	Glades	6 days
Aug 26, 9:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	2 hr
Aug 26, 9:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	37 min
Aug 26, 9:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	7 min
Aug 26, 10:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	62 min
Aug 26, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		118 min
Aug 26, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	57 min
Aug 26, 10:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	3 hr
Aug 26, 11:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	54 min
Aug 26, 11:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	2 hr
Aug 27, 12:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	114 min
Aug 27, 12:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
Aug 27, 12:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	52 min
Aug 27, 1:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	56 min
Aug 27, 1:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	9 hr
Aug 27, 1:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades, Palm Beach	52 min
Aug 27, 2:08 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		112 min
Aug 27, 2:10 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	110 min
Aug 27, 5:49 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MFL		38 hr
Aug 27, 5:49 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	MFL	Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more	15 hr
Aug 27, 6:23 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	MFL	Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	19 hr
Aug 27, 6:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Palm Beach	2 hr
Aug 27, 6:36 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		24 min
Aug 27, 6:38 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
Aug 27, 8:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	53 min
Aug 27, 8:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Glades, Palm Beach	42 min
Aug 27, 8:38 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		52 min
Aug 27, 9:21 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	114 min
Aug 27, 9:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	23 min
Aug 27, 9:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	18 min
Aug 27, 11:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	3 hr
Aug 27, 11:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	65 min
Aug 27, 11:56 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		2 hr
Aug 27, 12:04 PM EDT	Gale Warning	MFL		9 hr
Aug 27, 12:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Miami-Dade	114 min
Aug 27, 12:24 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	MFL	Collier	13 hr
Aug 27, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	25 min
Aug 27, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	37 min
Aug 27, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	62 min
Aug 27, 1:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	3 hr
Aug 27, 1:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward, Miami-Dade	118 min
Aug 27, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		91 min
Aug 27, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	58 min
Aug 27, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	12 min
Aug 27, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	29 min
Aug 27, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		116 min
Aug 27, 4:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	6 hr
Aug 27, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		94 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.