Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 2001, 5:53 AM EDT for Manatee County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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, 5:53 AM EDT (09:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2001, 6:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Manatee County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 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, 5:56 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Myakka City, FL | A weak F0 tornado sporadically touched down across rural southeast Manatee county, eight miles southeast of Myakka City. The tornado continued to move northwest over rural open countryside where it downed a few large trees before crossing State Road 70, appro |
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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.
979 WFUS52 KTBW 140954 TORTBW FLC081-141030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 553 AM EDT FRI SEP 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MANATEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 630 AM EDT. * AT 553 AM EDT...A TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN MANATEE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... STATE ROAD 70. MYAKKA CITY BY 600 AM EDT. MYAKKA HEAD BY 610 AM 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. 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 HOMES. LEAVE VEHICLES AND GET INTO A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. $$ LAT...LON 2726 8211 2728 8206 2749 8206 2748 8219 25 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, 4:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 33 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.