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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 26, 2002Hillsborough County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2002, 5:07 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 2002, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Hillsborough County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 23 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 2002-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1285 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 2002-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
1285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 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.

224 
WFUS52 KTBW 262107
TORTBW
FLC057-262145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
ISSUED BY NWS MELBOURNE FL
505 PM EDT FRI JUL 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
  IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AROUND 500 PM EDT...HILLSBORUGH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT RELAYED A 
REPORT OF A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN VALRICO. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS
AN INTENSE LIGHTNING STORM IN THIS AREA DRIFTING NORTHWARD.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BLOOMINGDALE AND BRANDON

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STRONG BUILDING ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS
TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND BODY.

$$

LAT...LON 2788 8236 2775 8222 2785 8208 2816 8209

CRISTALDI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWLee41 min
Jul 26, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWManatee40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.