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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 14, 2001Pinellas County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2001, 9:36 AM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 9 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
Jul 14, 2001, 9:36 AM EDT (13:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2001, 9:45 AM EDT
In force
9 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Pinellas County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 14, 9:39 AM EDTTornado F0Tierra Verde, FLA Skywarn Spotter reported that a waterspout moved onshore as a short-lived and weak tornado without damage in Tierra Verde in extreme southern Pinellas county.

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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 40 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 12:00Z on 2001-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2220 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2001-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 141337
TORTBW

FLC103-141345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
936 AM EDT SAT JUL 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PINELLAS COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 945 AM EDT.

* AT 936 AM EDT...A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED JUST OFF TIERRA          
  VERDE...MOVING ONSHORE.

TAKE COVER IMMEDIATEY!

$$

LAT...LON 2779 8266 2767 8281 2742 8260 2757 8241

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough42 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.