Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 66, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1998, 10:40 AM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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 25, 1998, 10:40 AM EDT (14:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1998, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Winter Haven, FL | The Polk County Emergency Management reported a short lived tornado, associated with an outer band of Hurricane Georges, touched down over rural semi-wooded countryside and removed a few awnings, blew over a couple of sheds and downed power lines and large tre |
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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTBW 251440 RRA TORTBW FLC105-251515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 1040 AM EDT FRI SEP 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 1115 AM EDT * AT 1040 AM EDT... A TORNADO VERY NEAR LAKE WALES...WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN RUSKIN... MOVING NORTHWEST 35 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HAINES CITY AROUND 1100 AM EDT EAGLE LAKE AROUND 1100 AM EDT WINTER HAVEN AROUND 1100 AM EDT LAKE ALFRED AROUND 1105 AM EDT AUBURNDALE AROUND 1110 AM EDT * A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED EARLIER WITH THIS STORM IN THE INDIAN LAKES ESTATES AREA. * A SECOND TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN POLK COUNTY...5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRADLEY JUNCTION. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 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. NASH/ZALESKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 46 min |
| Sep 25, 9:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 48 min |
| Sep 25, 11:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 1:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 43 min |
| Sep 25, 1:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 2:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 25 min |
| Sep 25, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte | 37 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.