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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

November 5, 1992Hernando County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 1992, 10:42 AM EST for Hernando County, Florida. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 5, 1992, 10:42 AM EST (15:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 5, 1992, 11:45 AM EST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Hernando County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 1428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTBW 051543
TORTBW
FLC053-051645-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
1042 AM EST THU NOV 5 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...HERNANDO COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
INCLUDING THE BAY AND INLAND WATERS
 
A TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY RADAR JUST OFFSHORE FROM BAYPORT MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
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.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
IF YOU SEE A TORNADO... WATERSPOUT... HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND...
CALL THE WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SEVERE WEATHER LINE AT
1-800-282-5584.

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, Nov 5, 10:19 AM EST, 23 minutes before

FLC017-075-051530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
1020 AM EST THU NOV 5 1992

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LEVY COUNTY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT
AND WILbL EXPIRE FOR CITRUS COUNTY AT 1030 AM. THUNDERSTROMS ARE STILL
OCCURRING INPARTS OF CITRUS COUNTY AT THIS TIME... BUT THE THREAT OF
SEVERE WEATHER IS DIMINISHING AND MOVING TO THE EAST AND SOUTH.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 8:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Citrus, Levy	119 min
Nov 5, 10:23 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Hernando, Pasco	97 min
Nov 5, 11:04 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Sumter	86 min
Nov 5, 12:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pasco	58 min
Nov 5, 1:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pinellas	63 min
Nov 5, 3:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pinellas	58 min
Nov 5, 4:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TBW	Pinellas	51 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.