Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 45, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 1998, 1:41 PM EST for Manatee County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 19, 1998, 1:41 PM EST (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1998, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Manatee County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:55 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Myakka City, FL | A short lived tornado destroyed a mobile home and six to seven barns at the Charlotte Horse Ranch on State Road 70 near Myakka City. A 23 year-old man was injured and his cat killed when the tornado destroyed there mobile home and pickup truck. |
| Mar 19, 2:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Myakka City, FL | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph by the public caused minor roof and shingle damage to a few homes and downed a few large trees and several large branches in Myakka City. |
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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
563 WFUS1 KTBW 191842 TORTBW FLC081-191930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 141 PM EST THU MAR 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A...TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EST FOR ...EAST CENTRAL AND EASTERN MANATEE COUNTY AT 138 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN RUSKIN INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR DUETE TO 675 AND STATE ROAD 70. RADAR INDICATED TO DEVELOPING TORNADOES...ONE ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUETE...THE SECOND ALONG THE SARASTOA COUNTY LINE NEAR STATE ROAD 70. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TORNADO MEANS THAT THERE IS STRONG ROTATION WITHIN A STORM. THE STORM MAY NOT BE PRODUCING A TORNADO AT THE MOMENT...BUT WILL LIKELY DURING THE WARNING PERIOD. THE STORM MAY ALSO INCLUDE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND. THOSE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE ADVISED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco, Pinellas | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 12:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 2:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hardee | 59 min |
| Mar 19, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 59 min |
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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.