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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 20, 1992Charlotte County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 1992, 3:41 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1992, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1992, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Charlotte County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 880 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
880 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Jul 20, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL
203 PM EDT MON JUL 20 1992

  JUL 18 1992
  1715 PM EDT       CHARLOTTE COUNTY  PUNTA GORDA; WIND DAMAGE
                    REPORTED BY PUBLIC; TREES WITH 8 INCH TRUNK DIAMETERS
                    UPROOTED ON GOLF COURSE AND STREET LAMPS KNOCKED OVER.
                    MIASVRTBW 182111 FLC015-182145- IN EFFECT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPasco, Pinellas64 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.