Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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 5, 2002, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hillsborough County, FL, Pinellas County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 5, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Tampa Intl Arpt, FL | National Weather Service damage survey concluded the F0 tornado moved through the Town and Country area, beginning just north of Hillsborough Avenue on Tudor Road and continued northwest to near the intersection of Wexford and Timberlane West Road. The majori |
| Jun 5, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Crystal Beach, FL | Trained weather spotter was watching the funnel cloud and noticed it touched down briefly with no damage. |
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, 10.5 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
- 1214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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 052230 TORTBW FLC057-103-052300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 629 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY IN FLORIDA. NORTHEASTERN PINELLAS COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 700 PM EDT. * AT 629 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER WESTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... TOWN N COUNTRY. OLDSMAR. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE INTO A STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SIGHTED. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 2796 8263 2797 8253 2813 8257 2812 8274 25 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 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.