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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 6, 2000Hillsborough County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 2000, 4:13 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 6, 2000, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Hillsborough County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 6, 4:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Tampa, FL	The Hillsborough County Emergency Management and Skywarn Spotters reported that thunderstorm winds downed several trees and numerous large branches over the northern and northeast portions of the Tampa metropolitan area.
Aug 6, 4:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandon, FL	The Hillsborough County Emergency Management reported that thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees and several large branches from Brandon southeast to Bloomingdale in eastern Hillsborough county.

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 23 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

695 
WFUS52 KTBW 062015
TORTBW
FLC057-062045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
413 PM EDT SUN AUG 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT.

* AT 413 PM EDT... A PILOT REPORTED A TORNADO LOCATED OVER TAMPA 
NEAR I-275 AND I-4 MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.


  THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT CARROLLWOOD AND NOWRRTHWESTERN 
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY BY 420 PM EDT.


THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM MOVE INTO THE INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. COVER YOUR HEAD AND
BODY WITH PILLOWS OR BLANKETS.

$$

LAT...LON 2804 8264 2789 8244 2807 8225 2817 8253

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Charlotte, Lee	46 min
Aug 6, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pinellas	32 min
Aug 6, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pasco	27 min
Aug 6, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Citrus, Hernando	39 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.