Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1994, 3:59 PM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1994, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1994, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:30 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-162035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 330 PM EDT MON MAY 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST EAST OF BUSHNELL SOUTH TO JUST EAST OF DADE CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE WESTERN PENINSULA FROM MAYAKA CITY NORTH TO BETWEEN LAKE GEORGE AND OTTER CREEK. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:35 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-162035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 330 PM EDT MON MAY 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST EAST OF BUSHNELL SOUTH TO JUST EAST OF DADE CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE WESTERN PENINSULA FROM MAYAKA CITY NORTH TOV BETWEEN LAKE GEORGE AND OTTER CREEK. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 68 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.