Tornadoes · United States · Florida · 2006

F0 tornado, Golden Beach, Florida, November 14, 2006

Name: F0 tornado, Golden Beach, Florida, November 14, 2006
Start: 2006-11-14T17:32:00.000Z
Location: Golden Beach, Florida

This F0 tornado ran 0.0 miles across Miami-Dade County on November 14, 2006, touching down at 12:32 PM EST and reaching 20 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: F0
Date: November 14, 2006
Touchdown: 12:32 PM EST (17:32 UTC)
Path length: 0.0 miles (0.0 km)
Path width: 20 yards (18 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Miami-Dade County
Touchdown point: 25.950, -80.120
Lift-off point: 25.950, -80.120
Record number: 1023

What the Weather Service recorded

A weak tornado moved onshore Golden Beach and dissipated as it reached the dune line at the beach.

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.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, 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 tornado touched down at Nov 14, 9:57 AM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 9:57 AM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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, Nov 14, 11:23 AM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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 surface observations

Hollywood/N. Perry (HWO), 13 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
00:00 UTC

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 17:32 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of November 14, 2006

2 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 14	4:00 PM CST	F1	Washington Parish, LA	0.5	50			$50,000
November 14	4:10 PM CST	F1	Washington Parish, LA	0.5	50			$20,000

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.