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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

March 30, 2001Charlotte County, Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2001, 5:35 AM EST for Charlotte County, Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2001, 5:35 AM EST (10:35 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2001, 6:00 AM EST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Charlotte County, FL, Lee County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2001-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2001-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -198 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 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 301035
TORTBW
FLC015-071-301100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
535 AM EST FRI MAR 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
  SOUTHWESTERN LEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 600 AM EST.

* AT 535 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  BOCA GRANDE BY 540 AM EST.
  CHARLOTTE HARBOR AND THE IMMEDIATE SHORELINE

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! MOVE INTO THE INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR NOF A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. COVER YOUR HEAD AND
BODY WITH PILLOWS OR BLANKETS.

$$

LAT...LON 2670 8237 2657 8223 2679 8205 2691 8215

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 2:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSarasota23 min
Mar 30, 2:33 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSarasota12 min
Mar 30, 4:09 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHighlands21 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.