Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1988, 4:38 PM EDT for Citrus County, Florida. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1988, 4:38 PM EDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1988, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Citrus County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTBW 252040
TORTBW
FLC017-053-101-252145-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
438 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
...CENTRAL CITRUS...CENTRAL HERNANDO...CENTRAL PASCO
A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM THE THUNDERSTORM BY CITRUS
COUNTY AT 3:15 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER
TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS.
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GIET
INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:44 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 345 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 1988 PERSONS IN NORTHWESTERN SUMTER AND EASTERN CITRUS COUNTIES IN FLORIDA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSIBILITY STRONG AND DAMAGING SURFACE WINDS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PERIODS OF OF VERY HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH A THUNDERSTORM CURRENTLY LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF INVERNESS AND MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHWEST ABOUT 1+0 MILES PER HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OCCURANCE AND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE NEAREST YOU OR YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hernando, Pasco | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.