Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 9, 1989, 6:34 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1989, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1989, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1050 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 092237
TORTBW
FLC071-092300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
634 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
...WESTERN LEE
AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS .
A TORNADO AND WATERSPOUTS HAVE BEEN SIGHTED IN THE CAPE CORAL AND
SANIBEL ISLAND AREAS OF WESTERN LEE COUNTY. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING
TO THE SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF WATERS.
.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER
TO A SMALL INTyERIOR 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.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, Sep 9, 6:21 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL 620 PM EDT SAT SEP 09 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR COASTAL AREAS OF LEE COUNTY... A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWEST NEAR THE COASTAL AREA OF LEE COUNTY. A FEW FUNNEL CLOUDS ALOFT WERE SIGHTED THIS PAST HOUR OVER CORAL CABLES. RSIDENTS AND BOATERS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER ...HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...FREQUENTr LIGHTNING AND BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS. WATERSPOUTS MAY FORM AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER THE INTERCOASTAL WATERS.
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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.