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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 14, 1993Manatee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 1993, 9:01 AM EDT for Manatee County, Florida. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 1993, 9:01 AM EDT (13:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1993, 9:30 AM EDT
In force
29 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, 1.0 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 1993-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2444 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 1993-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
2444 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.