Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2000, 5:12 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 7, 2000, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hillsborough County, FL, Polk County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:14 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Plant City, FL | The Tampa Electric Company reported that a few large trees and several branches were downed by thunderstorm winds at the 3700 block of Swindell Road and 900 block of Half Mile Road in Plant City. |
| Jun 7, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lithia, FL | Skywarn Spotters reported that thunderstorm winds downed power lines and a few trees near the intersection of County Road 39 and Keysville Road over rural eastern Hillsborough county. |
| Jun 7, 5:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Mango, FL | Skywarn Spotters reported nickel sized hail fell for nine minutes in Mango. |
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 1199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 072112 TORTBW FLC057-105-072145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 512 PM EDT WED JUN 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY WESTERN POLK COUNTY * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 505 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR PLANT CITY...MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PLANT CITY 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 2805 8204 2797 8222 2777 8210 2782 8195 88 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 35 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.