Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1997, 4:35 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1997, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1997, 5:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hillsborough County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 4:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa, FL | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees which damaged a home in Ruskin. |
| Jun 24, 4:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa, FL | Numerous reports of large trees downed by thunderstorm winds from Brandon north to Mango. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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
- 1382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
164 WFUS1 KTBW 242036 RRA TORTBW FLC057-FLZ504-242110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 435 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 510 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION(S) IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FOR MARINERS ON TAMPA BAY FROM ...OLD TAMPA BAY TO LOWER TAMPA BAY AT 433 PM EDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN TAMPA MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DOWNTOWN TAMPA AROUND 446 PM EDT TEMPLE TERRACE AROUND 501 PM EDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR THE GROUND IN APOLLO BEACH AT 433 PM. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SIGHTED BY THE PUBLIC. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A CONFIRMED TORNADO YET BUT CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING NOW PROTECT YOURSELF...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Pasco, Pinellas | 2 hr |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.