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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 20, 2001Manatee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2001, 5:25 PM EDT for Manatee County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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 20, 2001, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 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 21:24 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, 5:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradenton, FL	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees, branches and power lines, from near the intersection of U.S. Highway 301 and Whitfield Avenue, to 51st Avenue East in Bradenton.

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, 9.4 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTBW 202125
TORTBW
FLC081-202200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
525 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MANATEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.

* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 10 MILES EAST OF BRADENTON ALONG INTERSTATE 75 JUST      
  NORTH OF STATE ROAD 64...MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  SAMOSET.
  WEST SAMOSET.
  WEST BRADENTON.
  CORTEZ.
  BRADENTON BEACH.
  HOLMES BEACH.

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.

$$


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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 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, 4:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Sarasota	37 min
Jun 20, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Lee	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.