Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2000, 6:50 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 25 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 13, 2000, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hillsborough County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverview, FL | The media reported that thunderstorm winds uprooted several young trees in Riverview. |
| Jun 13, 6:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa, FL | Law enforcement reported that thunderstorm winds severely damaged the roofs of two commercial buildings and downed at least ten large trees east of downtown Tampa. |
| Jun 13, 7:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Tampa, FL | The media and law enforcement reported that quarter to dime sized hail fell from downtown Tampa north to Carrollwood, mainly east of the I-275 corridor. The quarter sized hail caused several vehicles to incur glass and body damage from Tampa north to Carrollw |
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, 10.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 132253 TORTBW FLC057-132315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 650 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY. * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 640 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TAMPA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... EAST LAKE-ORIENT PARK BY 655 PM EDT. TAMPA BY 700 PM EDT. TAMPA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BY 705 PM EDT. TEMPLE TERRACE BY 710 PM EDT. CARROLLWOOD BY 715 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 2786 8250 2791 8230 2813 8238 2811 8257 88 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 44 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.