Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2001, 4:23 PM EDT for Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min. 2 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 20, 2001, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 4:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Nokomis, FL | Dime sized hail was reported by Sarasota county fire & rescue along Jackson Road in Nokomis. |
| Jun 20, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Laurel, FL | The public reported, through WWSB-TV (ABC) of Sarasota, a small tornado that briefly touched down over a sparsely populated, partially wooded area, near the intersection of Interstate 75 and State Road 681, two miles northeast of Laurel in western Sarasota cou |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 202025 TORTBW FLC115-202100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 423 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL SARASOTA COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 500 PM EDT. * AT 423 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF VENICE...MOVING WEST AT 5 -MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... CENTRAL SARASOTA COUNTY FOR AREAS NEAR INTERSTATE 75 BETWEEN NOKOMIS AND STATE ROAD 72. $$ LAT...LON 2709 8233 2727 8230 2732 8258 2708 8253 15 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte | 37 min |
| Jun 20, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Lee | 37 min |
| Jun 20, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.