A weak tornado moved onshore Golden Beach and dissipated as it reached the dune line at the beach.
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A weak tornado moved onshore Golden Beach and dissipated as it reached the dune line at the beach.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 14, 9:57 AM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 957 AM EST TUE NOV 14 2006 .UPDATE...NO MAJOR CHANGES TO MORNING UPDATES. MID TO HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS CONTINUES TO STREAM ACROSS S FLA WITH LEFT OVER BOUNDARY BUT MORE SUN TODAY THAN 24 HOURS AGO. THIS IS RESULTING IN TEMPS CLIMBING FASTER AND APPROACHING THE MAX FCST TEMP BUT THEN SHOULD HOLD OUT STEADY. STILL LOOKING AT THESE TEMPS MAXING OUT IN THE LOWER 80S. GRADIENT FLOW REMAINS VERY WEAK AND SO SEA BREEZES SHOULD AGAIN GET A LATE START. NO SOUNDING THIS MORNING FROM MFL BUT SURROUNDING STATIONS AS WELL AS WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATE VERY DRY CONDITTION CONTINUE ALOFT SO STILL NO RAIN FOR TODAY. MARINE WINDS QUITE LIGHT AND VARIABLE AND DID ADJUST THOSE A BIT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... DISCUSSION...ZONAL FLOW ALOFT ESTABLISHED ACROSS S FLA AND 1 MORE DAY OF FILTERED SUNSHINE ON TAP AS FLOW OF MID/UPPER CLOUDS FROM E PAC ACROSS OL MEX AND GULF OF MEX ACROSS FLA CONTINUES. A DEEPENING TROUGH IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS SHOVES THIS STREAMLINE OF MID/UPPER CLOUDS S TONIGHT. AS THE DEVELOPING UPPER LOW IN THE PLAINS DEEPENS AND MOVES INTO SE U.S. WED...THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVES INTO N FLA WED NIGHT...MOVING INTO S FLA LATE THU MORN THEN OFFSHORE SE FLA EARLY EVE. HIGH PRES BUILDS TO THE NW BEHIND THE FRONT AND A SERIES OF WEAK SHORT WAVES DEEPEN THE TROUGH OVER THE ATLC KEEPING THE REGION UNDER A DRY COOL NW FLOW THROUGH THE WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK. DRY AND NEAR NORMAL TEMPS NEXT 36 HOURS THOUGH A FEW SHOWERS COULD POP UP WED AFTERNOON BUT AT THE MOMENT POSSIBILITY REMOTE SO NOT PLACED IN ZONES AT THIS TIME. MOISTURE INCREASES AHEAD OF FRONT AND POPS EXPECTED WED NIGHT NW AND CWA THU...DECREASING AND ENDING LATE EVE THU SE. DYNAMICS REMAIN WELL N OF S FLA AND SURFACE WINDS VEER AHEAD OF FRONT LIMITING LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE SO MORE RAIN THAN THUNDER EXPECTED. MIN TEMPS ABOVE NORMAL WED NIGHT WITH INCREASING CLOUDS AND WINDS WITH NEAR NORMAL TEMPS THU. TEMPS DROP WELL BELOW NORMS THU NIGHT WITH DRY COOL CONDITIONS PERSISTING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AVIATION...MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. BROKEN CIRRUS AND SOME FAIR WEATHER CUMULUS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PATCHY LOW LYING FOG IS POSSIBLE AT TMB THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING PERHAPS RESULTING IN BRIEF MVFR CONDITIONS. MARINE...WEAK GRADIENT RESULTS IN A WEAK VARIABLE WIND FLOW TODAY AND THIS EVE...BECOMING SOUTHERLY AND GRADUALLY INCREASING LATE TONIGHT THROUGH THU AHEAD OF THE FRONT. WINDS BECOME NW/N BEHIND THE FRONT THU INTO THE WEEKEND. SEAS IN THE GULF STREAM TO INCREASE TO 6 FEET FRI...AND POSSIBLY 7 FEET OR HIGHER FOR THE WEEKEND. FIRE WEATHER...NO PROBLEMS TODAY THROUGH FRI RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES PROJECTED TO FALL BELOW 35% FOR MOST OF THE AREA SAT AND SUN BEFORE SOME SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT MON. && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1123 AM EST TUE NOV 14 2006 FLZ063-066>075-150415- GLADES-HENDRY-PALM BEACH WESTERN-PALM BEACH EASTERN- WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER-WESTERN BROWARD- BROWARD METROPOLITAN-WESTERN DADE-DADE METROPOLITAN- MAINLAND MONROE- 1122 AM EST TUE NOV 14 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A COLD FRONT WILL PASS ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA THURSDAY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.MIAMIWEATHER.INFO.
The Miami radar (KAMX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:32 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A waterspout moved onshore Golden Beach as a very weak F0 tornado. The event was captured by news media helicopters as the waterspout moved onshore. The tornado moved onto the beach about 50 yards before lifting at the dune line. No damage was observed or reported.
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