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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 19, 1988Manatee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 1988, 3:16 PM EDT for Manatee 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 Manatee 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 26 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTBW 191920 RRA
TORTBW
FLC081-103-191945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
316 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
          ...WESTERN MANATEE...SOUTHERN PINELLAS
 
AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF THE TWO COUNTIES INCLUDING TAMPA BAY
 
 
A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED IN MANTEE COUNTY DAMAGING SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES.
A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM SOUTHERN PINELLAS TO
WESTERN MANATEE.
 
 
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 GET
INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
MARINE INTERESTS IN THESE WATERS SHOULD AVOID THESE STORMS AND
SEEK SAFE HARBOR.

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	Pinellas	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.