Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 21
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 2, 1998, 2:00 PM EST for 22 counties in Florida. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 1998, 2:00 PM EST (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 1998, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Broward County, FL, Charlotte County, FL, Citrus County, FL, Collier County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Martin County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 38 min |
| Feb 2, 3:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 118 min |
| Feb 2, 3:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 119 min |
| Feb 2, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 59 min |
| Feb 2, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 91 min |
| Feb 2, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 93 min |
| Feb 2, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 57 min |
| Feb 2, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 65 min |
| Feb 2, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 61 min |
| Feb 2, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 95 min |
| Feb 2, 6:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 61 min |
| Feb 2, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Monroe | 58 min |
| Feb 2, 7:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco, Pinellas | 48 min |
| Feb 2, 7:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 52 min |
| Feb 2, 7:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 62 min |
| Feb 2, 7:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 32 min |
| Feb 2, 7:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 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.
Nearby
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.