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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

March 27, 2000Hardee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2000, 11:36 AM EST for Hardee County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 2000, 11:36 AM EST (16:36 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 2000, 12:10 PM EST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Hardee County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 162 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTBW 271636
TORTBW
FLC049-271710-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RUSKIN FL
1136 AM EST MON MAR 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HARDEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 12:10 PM EST

* AT 11:33 AM...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER
  SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF WAUCHULA. MOVEMENT WAS
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL AFFECT TRAVELERS ALONG RURAL STATE ROAD 64.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 3:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPolk32 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.