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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 23, 1992Manatee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 1992, 4:56 PM EDT for Manatee County, Florida. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1992, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Manatee County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 26 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 1992-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1608 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 1992-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 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
1608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSarasota48 min
Jul 23, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPasco, Pinellas49 min

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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.