Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 67, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1998, 11:46 AM EDT for Pasco County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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, 11:46 AM EDT (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1998, 12:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pasco County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 12:32 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Hudson, FL | A Pasco County Sheriffs Deputy observed a tornado, associated with an outer band of Hurricane Georges, briefly touch down and topple a few large trees near U.S. Highway 19 in Hudson. |
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 25, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 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
- 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.
110 WFUS1 KTBW 251547 RRA TORTBW FLC101-251635- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 1146 AM EDT FRI SEP 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PASCO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 1235 PM EDT * AT 1144 AM EDT... A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ZEPHYRHILLS OR 5 MILES EAST OF CRYSTAL SPRINGS... WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN RUSKIN... MOVING NORTHWEST 35 MPH. * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CRYSTAL SPRINGS AROUND 1150 AM EDT RICHLAND AROUND 1155 AM EDT ZEPHYRHILLS AROUND 1155 AM EDT DADE CITY AROUND 1205 PM EDT WESLEY CHAPEL AROUND 1210 PM EDT SAN ANTONIO AROUND 1210 PM EDT * A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN EXTREME NORTHWEST POLK COUNTY. 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. ZALESKI/NASH
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, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 35 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.