Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1989, 12:41 PM EDT for Pasco County, Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1989, 12:41 PM EDT (16:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1989, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pasco County, FL, 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTBW 061639
TORTBW
FLC101-103-061715-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
1241 PM EDT TUE JUN 6 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
...WESTERN PASCO...NORTHERN PINELLAS
A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST CENTRAL
FLORIDA COAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15
MILES AN HOUR.
AN UNCONFIRMED TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN TEH CLEARWATER AREA AT 1230 PM.
MOVEMENT WAS UNKNOWN BUT LIKELY TOWARD THE NORTHEAST.
THESE ARE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND RESIDENTS SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY.
MARINE INTERESTS IN THESE WATERS SHOULD AVOID THESE STORMS AND
SEEK SAFE HARBOR.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 6, 8:22 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 820 AM EDT TUE JUN 6 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH THE WEST COAST... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE GULF 15 TO OVER 100 MILES OFFSHORE FROM THE WEST COAST FROM LEVY COUNTY SOUTH TO SARASOTA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... HEAVY DOWNPOURS... LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME WATERSPOUTS AS THEY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ONSHORE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. BOATERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WIND AND SEA CONDITIONS AND AVOID THE THUNDERSTORMS BY SEEKING SAFE HARBOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:37 AM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1030 AM EDT TUE JUN 6 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ONSHORE ALONG THE WEST COAST... AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAS DEVELOPED OVER THE GULF WAS MOVING ONSHORE ALONG THE WEST COAST FROM LEVY COUNTY SOUTH TO SARASOTA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WESTERN PASCO COUNTY AND 50 MILES WEST OF THE TAMPA BAY AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... HEAVY DOWNPOURS... LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME WATERSPOUTS AS THEY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ONSHORE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.E BOATERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WIND AND SEA CONDITIONS AND AVOID THE THUNDERSTORMS BY SEEKING SAFE HARBOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:42 AM EDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1135 AM EDT TUE JUN 6 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ONSHORE ALONG THE WEST COAST... AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM GEORGIA TO 100 MILES WEST OF CAPTIVA WAS MOVING ONSHORE ALONG THE WEST COAST FROM LEVY COUNTY SOUTH TO SARASOTA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WESTERN PASCO AND HERNANDO COUNTIES AND 25 MILES WEST OF THE TAMPA BAY AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... HEAVY DOWNPOURS... LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME WATERSPOUTS AS THEY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ONSHORE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. BOATERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WIND AND SEA CONDITIONS AND AVOID THE THUNDERSTORMS BY SEEKING SAFE HARBOUR.
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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.