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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 2002, 1:21 PM EST for DeSoto County, Florida. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2002, 1:21 PM EST (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2002, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeSoto County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 10:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 161821 TORTBW FLC027-161845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 121 PM EST SAT NOV 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 145 PM EST * AT 121 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER EASTERN DESOTO COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... RURAL EASTERN DESOTO COUNTY INCLUDING STATE ROAD 70 BY 125 PM EST. && LAT...LON 2714 8179 2701 8165 2712 8157 2727 8158 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 11:13 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 62 min | |
| Nov 16, 1:46 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 44 min | |
| Nov 16, 8:53 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 52 min | |
| Nov 16, 10:10 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 50 min | |
| Nov 16, 10:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto, Highlands, Lee, Sarasota | 3 hr |
| Nov 16, 11:09 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 2 hr | |
| Nov 16, 11:57 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 63 min | |
| Nov 16, 12:55 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 2 hr | |
| Nov 16, 12:55 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 2 hr | |
| Nov 16, 1:06 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 54 min | |
| Nov 16, 1:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Lee, Manatee and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 16, 1:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Highlands | 48 min |
| Nov 16, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands, Polk | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 2:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Highlands, Polk | 28 min |
| Nov 16, 3:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Lee | 63 min |
| Nov 16, 4:24 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Lee | 111 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.