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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 2, 1995Hernando County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 1995, 6:37 PM EDT for Hernando County, Florida. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1995, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Hernando County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 1995-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 237 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTBW 022238
TORTBW
FLC053-022315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
637 PM EDT WED AUG 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...EASTERN HERNANDO COUNTY
 
 
A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR MOVING INTO HERNANDO COUNTY FROM THE
SOUTH. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH  AT 35 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER
TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS.
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET
INTO A DITCH OR CDULVERT.
 
THE NWS RUSKIN OFFICE REQUESTS THE SKYWARN UNITS IN COUNTY
BE ACTIVATED. ALL SKYWARN UNITS IN WEST CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE LOCAL WEATHER AND FORWARD SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER REPORTS TO THE RUSKIN OFFICE.

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.