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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

September 17, 2000Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2000, 5:45 AM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
Sep 17, 2000, 5:45 AM EDT (09:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 2000, 6:30 AM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, FL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 17, 4:30 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 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 00:00Z on 2000-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 238 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 00:00Z on 2000-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTBW 170945
TORTBW

FLC071-171030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
545 AM EDT SUN SEP 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LEE COUNTY.

* UNTIL 630 AM EDT.

* AT 545 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANIBEL...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  SANIBEL BY 545 AM EDT.
  PINE ISLAND BY 555 AM EDT.
  BOCA GRANDE BY 615 AM EDT.

TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO
A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
ABANDON MOBILE cHOMES. LEAVE VEHICLES AND GET INTO A DITCH OR LOW
SPOT.

$$


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 4:28 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWLee32 min
Sep 17, 4:55 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWCharlotte, Sarasota35 min
Sep 17, 5:28 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWCharlotte, Sarasota47 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.