Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 52, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1998, 3:18 PM EDT for Pasco County, Florida. It was in force for 57 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
- Sep 2, 1998, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1998, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pasco County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Land O Lakes, FL | A short lived tornado, associated with an outer band of Hurricane Earl, touched down over rural semi wooded countryside, four miles west of Land O' Lakes and one mile north of State Road 54, with no apparent damage. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
930 WFUS1 KTBW 021917 RRA TORTBW FLC101-GMZ850-022015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 318 PM EDT WED SEP 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PASCO COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 317 PM...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES WEST OF LAND O LAKES. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TORNADO MEANS A TORNADO MAY NOT BE OCCURRING AT THE MOMENT...BUT WILL LIKELY DO SO DURING THE WARNING PERIOD. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING. MOBILE HOMES AND CARS ARE NOT SAFE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 18 min |
| Sep 2, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hernando | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 3:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hernando | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Citrus | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 4:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hernando, Sumter | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 5:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sumter | 25 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.