Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2002, 5:48 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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 11, 2002, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charlotte County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 11, 6:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Charlotte Beach, FL | |
| Jun 11, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Port Charlotte, FL | The tornado started out as a waterspout over Charlotte Bay and moved onshore. Damage survey showed tornado was in an area of mostly vacant lots with numerous dead pine trees killed by previous wild fire. Numerous trees were down and a number of nearby power li |
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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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 112148 TORTBW FLC015-112215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 547 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 615 PM EDT. * AT 547 PM EDT...A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORT CHARLOTTE...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * AT 547 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT OVER CHARLOTTE BAY MOVING WEST. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... PORT CHARLOTTE BY 545 PM EDT. $$ LAT...LON 2681 8210 2697 8203 2701 8222 2683 8228 72
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 45 min | |
| Jun 11, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 26 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.