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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2000, 5:28 AM EDT for Charlotte County, Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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
- Sep 17, 2000, 5:28 AM EDT (09:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2000, 6:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 5:43 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Port Charlotte, FL | A fast moving tornado, associated with an outer rainband of Hurricane Gordon, briefly touched down near the Port Charlotte Yacht Club and Public Beach near Harbor Boulevard in Port Charlotte. The tornado continued to sporadically touch down along a narrow pat |
| Sep 17, 5:50 AM EDT | Hail 1 | Port Charlotte, FL | The Charlotte County Sheriffs Department reported that one of their deputies observed quarter sized hail near the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and Murdock Circle in Port Charlotte. |
| Sep 17, 5:54 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | North Port, FL | A short lived tornado, that originated in Charlotte county and was associated with an outer rainband of Hurricane Gordon, briefly touched down, snapped a few trees, downed power lines and damaged a few carports, east of the intersection of Interstate 75 and To |
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 17, 4:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 170928 TORTBW FLC015-115-171015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 528 AM EDT SUN SEP 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY. SOUTHERN SARASOTA COUNTY. * UNTIL 615 AM EDT. * AT 528 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH OF PUNTA GORDA...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... ROTONDA BY 535 AM EDT. CHARLOTTE HARBOR BY 540 AM EDT. NORTH PORT BY 550 AM EDT. NOKOMIS BY 555 AM EDT. LAUREL BY 600 AM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! MOVE INTO THE INTERIOR ROOMF ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. COVER YOUR HEAD AND BODY WITH PILLOWS OR BLANKETS. $$ NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 4:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 32 min |
| Sep 17, 4:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Sarasota | 35 min |
| Sep 17, 5:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 45 min |
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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.