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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 15, 2000Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 2000, 11:23 AM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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
Aug 15, 2000, 11:23 AM EDT (15:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2000, 11:45 AM EDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, FL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 15, 11:30 AM EDTTornado F0Bokeelia, FLA mariner reported that a waterspout over Charlotte Harbor moved onshore as an F0 tornado and quickly dissipated near Bokeelia on northern Pine Island.

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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2000-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2858 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2858 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTBW 151525
TORTBW

FLC071-151545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RUSKIN FL
1123 AM EDT TUE AUG 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1145 AM EDT

* AT 1118 AM...A WATERSPOUT WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
  DOPPLER RADAR ALONG THE COASTAL SHORES OFF NORTHWEST CAPE CORAL.
  A SECOND WATERSPOUT WAS INDICATED NEAR CENTRAL PINE ISLAND. MOVEMENT
  OF BOTH WATERSPOUTS WAS SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...

  NORTHWEST CAPE CORAL
  PINE ISLAND

WATERSPOUTS THAT MOVE ONSHORE BECOME A TORNADO AND CAN DO CONSIDERABLE
DAMAGE. SHORELINE RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THIS DANGER
WHENEVER WATERSPOUTS ARE SIGHTED.

ZALESKI

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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.