Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 29, 2002, 4:22 PM EDT for Manatee County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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
- Jul 29, 2002, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Manatee County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 4:37 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Bradenton, FL | Fire and rescue reported that many trees were down due to the tornado in the Lakewood Ranch and Gray Hawk subdivisions. |
| Jul 29, 4:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Parrish, FL | Strong winds dropped trees and power lines. |
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, 8.4 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
- 826 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
212 WFUS52 KTBW 292022 TORTBW FLC081-292045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 422 PM EDT MON JUL 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MANATEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 445 PM EDT. * AT 422 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL MANATEE COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... LAKE MANATEE STATE PARK. LAKEWOOD RANCH. PANTHER RIDGE. $$ LAT...LON 2740 8246 2739 8229 2751 8230 2752 8252 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 55 min | |
| Jul 29, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Sarasota | 50 min |
| Jul 29, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee | 32 min |
| Jul 29, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 80 min | |
| Jul 29, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee | 32 min |
| Jul 29, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 46 min |
| Jul 29, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 29 min |
| Jul 29, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 30 min |
| Jul 29, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 75 min | |
| Jul 29, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 30 min |
| Jul 29, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Citrus, Hernando | 40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.