Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 29, 2002, 5:31 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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, 5:38 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Lehigh Acres, FL | Fire department reported tornado damage to huge trees and picnic tables in park. |
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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.
953 WFUS52 KTBW 292131 TORTBW FLC071-292200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 531 PM EDT MON JUL 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 600 PM EDT. * AT 531 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER LEHIGH ACRES...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... LEHIGH ACRES BY 530 PM EDT. $$ LAT...LON 2654 8164 2668 8151 2675 8173 2660 8176
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, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 23 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, 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 |
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.