Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 1992, 5:15 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1992, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1992, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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
- 667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 142117 TORTBW FLC071-142145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 515 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE... IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...LEE COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS INCLUDING THE BAY AND INLAND WATERS A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC AT 515 PM IN LEEHIGH ACRES IN FORT MYERS. NO MOVEMENT WAS GIVEN. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SEE COVER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU SEE A TORNADO... WATERSPOUT... HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND... CALL THE WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SEVERE WEATHER LINE AT 1-8(00-282-5584.
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, Jul 14, 3:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
FLZ006-008>021-142040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN FL 340 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1992 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA... AT 340 PM RADAR INDICATED STRONG SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE TAMPA BAY AREA...ESPECIALLY NORTHERN PINELLAS COUNTY. THEY EXTENDED NORTH INTO PASCO AND HERNANDO COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHERLY AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LOCAL STREET FLOODING AND NOT TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. OTHER SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE STATE ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHERN THIRD FROM AROUND LAKE OKEECHOBEE SOUTH. OTHER SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OUT OVER THE GULF OUT TO 120 MILES OFF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHERLY AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Lee | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hardee | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 28 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.