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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 29, 2003Pasco County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2003, 6:48 PM EDT for Pasco County, Florida. It was in force for 12 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
Jun 29, 2003, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
12 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pasco County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 2003-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1031 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 2003-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 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
1031 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 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.

515 
WFUS52 KTBW 292248
TORTBW
FLC101-292300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
648 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PASCO COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 648 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER DADE CITY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  DADE CITY BY 655 PM EDT.
  DADE CITY NORTH BY 700 PM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM MOVE INTO THE INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. COVER YOUR HEAD AND
BODY WITH PILLOWS OR BLANKETS.


&&

LAT...LON 2821 8223 2830 8206 2844 8215 2842 8241

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW53 min
Jun 28, 10:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW51 min
Jun 28, 10:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW64 min
Jun 28, 10:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPinellas35 min
Jun 28, 10:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough, Manatee42 min
Jun 28, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough, Pasco30 min
Jun 28, 11:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW33 min
Jun 28, 11:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough29 min
Jun 29, 12:28 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW62 min
Jun 29, 12:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSarasota65 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.