Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 1988, 3:16 PM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1988, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1988, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pinellas 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1062 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 3:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Polk | 42 min |
| Jul 19, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Lee | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas | 44 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.