Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 2001, 4:57 AM EDT for DeSoto County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 14, 2001, 4:57 AM EDT (08:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2001, 5:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeSoto County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 5:01 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Ft Ogden, FL | A weak F0 tornado, that crossed from the Charlotte - DeSoto county line near State Road 769, downed several large trees as it moved north into rural extreme southwest DeSoto county. The tornado lifted and dissipated approximately six miles west northwest of F |
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 14, 4:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 526 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
145 WFUS52 KTBW 140857 TORTBW FLC027-140930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 457 AM EDT FRI SEP 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 530 AM EDT. * AT 457 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL CHARLOTTE COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... FORT OGDEN BY 510 AM EDT. $$ LAT...LON 2705 8205 2705 8193 2721 8188 2722 8204 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 25 min |
| Sep 14, 4:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 30 min |
| Sep 14, 4:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte | 25 min |
| Sep 14, 5:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.