Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 23, 1998, 8:25 AM EST for Charlotte County, DeSoto County, Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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
- Jan 23, 1998, 8:25 AM EST (13:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 1998, 9:25 AM EST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Charlotte County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 9:15 AM EST | Tornado F0 | North Port, FL | A short lived tornado touched down along Kaayan Street between Price and Norlendale Boulevards and downed several power lines, snapped tree tops and blew down stop signs before it lifted and dissipated. |
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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1021 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
428 WFUS1 KTBW 231332 RRA TORTBW FLC015-027-115-231425- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 825 AM EST FRI JAN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A...TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 925 AM EST FOR ...DESOTO COUNTY...SOUTHERN SARASOTA COUNTY AND WESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTIES AT 822 AM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN RUSKIN INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF ARCADIA...ONE NEAR NORTHPORT AND ONE NEAR ENGLEWOOD. THESE TORNADOES WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHERN SARASOTA AND WESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTIES DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR WITH THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 8:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pinellas | |
| Jan 23, 8:46 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pinellas | 49 min |
| Jan 23, 8:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee | 45 min |
| Jan 23, 9:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 9:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 9:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Highlands | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 9:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 46 min |
| Jan 23, 10:33 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Highlands | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 10:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 48 min |
| Jan 23, 11:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.