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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 25, 2000Hillsborough County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 5:38 PM EDT for Hillsborough 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: Jun 25, 2000, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Hillsborough County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 5:57 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Tampa Intl Arpt, FL	Hillsborough County Emergency Management reported that a tornado touched down and removed the roof of a mobile home, caused minor roof damage to four additional mobile homes and caused minor structural damage to 30 other mobile homes in the Colonial Coach MHP

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, 9.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 205 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTBW 252139
TORTBW
FLC057-252200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
538 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
 
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 538 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF TAMPA...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* AT 538 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC ALSO REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR WATERS AND 
  SHELDEN BLVD

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 2810 8252 2805 8271 2781 8264 2787 8243

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Hillsborough	30 min
Jun 25, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pinellas	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.