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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1993, 5:14 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 1993, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 1993, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hillsborough County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 2419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.7
- Supercell composite
- 23.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Oct 30, 1:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL
149 PM EDT SAT OCT 30 1993
DATE TIME LOCATION/EVENT
10/30/93 1330 EDT LEVY COUNTY, INGLIS/YANKEETOWN AREA, SR40
COASTAL FLOODING, ROADS UNDERWATER
1330 EDT CITRUS COUNTY,
COASTAL FLOODING, ALL COASTAL ROADS UNDER WATER
1330 EDT HERNANDO COUNTY
COASTAL FLOODING, ALL 3 COASTAL ROADS UNDER WATER
1330 EDT PASCO COUNTY
COASTAL FLOODING W OF US19, ALL BEACHES CLOSED
1 TO 2 FEET OF WATER ON ROADS IN HUDSON
1330 EDT PINELLAS COUNTY
COASTAL FLOODING, WATER COMING OVER SEAWALLS
SOME EVACUATIONS ST. PETERSBURG BEACH AREA
1330 EDT MANATEE COUNTY
COASTAL FLOODING, PARTS OF ANNAMARIA AND CORTEZ
WATER TO SEAWALLS OR ON ROADS.
1330 EDT LEE COUNTY, FORT MYERS BEACH
COASTAL FLOODING, WATER TO SEAWALLS, WAVES 6 FEET.Local storm report, Oct 30, 2:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL
149 PM EDT SAT OCT 30 1993
DATE TIME LOCATION/EVENT
10/30/93 1330 EDT LEVY COUNTY, INGLIS/YANKEETOWN AREA, SR40
COASTAL FLOODING, ROADS UNDERWATER
1330 EDT CITRUS COUNTY,
COASTAL FLOODING, ALL COASTAL ROADS UNDER WATER
1330 EDT HERNANDO COUNTY
COASTAL FLOODING, ALL 3 COASTAL ROADS UNDER WATER
1330 EDT PASCO COUNTY
COASTAL FLOODING W OF US19, ALL BEACHES CLOSED
1 TO 2 FEET OF WATER ON ROADS IN HUDSON
1330 EDT PINELLAS COUNTY
COASTAL FLOODING, WATER COMING OVER SEAWALLS
SOME EVACUATIONS ST. PETERSBURG BEACH AREA
1330 EDT MANATEE COUNTY
COASTAL FLOODING, PARTS OF ANNAMARIA AND CORTEZ
@ WATER TO SEAWALLS OR ON ROADS.
1330 EDT LEE COUNTY, FORT MYERS BEACH
COASTAL FLOODING, WATER TO SEAWALLS, WAVES 6 FEET.Local storm report, Oct 30, 3:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 30, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Levy | 66 min |
| Oct 30, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Citrus | 62 min |
| Oct 30, 11:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Levy | 67 min |
| Oct 30, 12:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Citrus | 30 min |
| Oct 30, 12:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando | 57 min |
| Oct 30, 12:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Citrus | 82 min |
| Oct 30, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando | 70 min |
| Oct 30, 1:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Citrus | 29 min |
| Oct 30, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando | 66 min |
| Oct 30, 2:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 26 min |
| Oct 30, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 69 min |
| Oct 30, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 35 min |
| Oct 30, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando | 70 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.