Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1997, 11:20 AM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1997, 11:20 AM EDT (15:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1997, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 8:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
412 WFUS1 KTBW 261523 RRA TORTBW FLC105-261615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1120 AM EDT SAT APR 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL FLORIDA ...NORTHERN POLK COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF LAKELAND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER OR 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 CULVERT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN REQUESTS THAT SKYWARN UNITS IN THE COUNTY BE ACTIVATED AND FORWARD ALL SIGNIFICANT WEATHER REPORTS TO OUR OFFICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 5:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pinellas | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 6:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 7:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 67 min |
| Apr 26, 7:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 7:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 8:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 8:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 10:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Manatee | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 10:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 11:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hardee, Polk | 68 min |
| Apr 26, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 65 min |
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.