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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Miami, FL

June 9, 2012Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2012, 1:52 AM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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: Jun 9, 2012, 1:52 AM EDT (05:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2012, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:55 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 1020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

678 
WFUS52 KMFL 090552
TORMFL
FLC021-090615-
/O.NEW.KMFL.TO.W.0008.120609T0552Z-120609T0615Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
152 AM EDT SAT JUN 9 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA...

* UNTIL 215 AM EDT

* AT 143 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF GOLDEN GATE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.


* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  VANDERBILT BEACH...BONITA SHORES...GOLDEN GATE...
  GOLDEN GATE ESTATES...
  AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING. STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY
OVERPASS. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...
IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A
TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR COULD DEVELOP ANYTIME.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. OR YOU CAN
ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT
305.229.4528 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.

&&

LAT...LON 2634 8183 2632 8181 2632 8167 2642 8167
      2643 8166 2643 8157 2648 8157 2649 8155
      2616 8156 2615 8179 2616 8182 2633 8185
TIME...MOT...LOC 0551Z 266DEG 36KT 2626 8178

$$
JR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 12:32 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		118 min
Jun 9, 1:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier	41 min
Jun 9, 2:01 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		59 min
Jun 9, 2:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	36 min
Jun 9, 2:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier, Glades, Hendry	59 min
Jun 9, 2:55 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		73 min
Jun 9, 3:03 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		81 min
Jun 9, 3:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	34 min
Jun 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	52 min
Jun 9, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Broward	30 min
Jun 9, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Martin	28 min
Jun 9, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	31 min
Jun 9, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		90 min
Jun 9, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Palm Beach	29 min
Jun 9, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Glades	48 min
Jun 9, 4:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFL	Broward	34 min
Jun 9, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL		47 min
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Broward	41 min
Jun 9, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MFL	Collier	45 min
Jun 9, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MFL	Collier	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.