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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2003, 2:37 PM EST for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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
- Mar 27, 2003, 2:37 PM EST (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2003, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lee County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 11:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
962 WFUS52 KTBW 271937 TORTBW FLC071-272000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 236 PM EST THU MAR 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 300 PM EST * AT 236 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH OF LEHIGH ACRES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... LEHIGH ACRES BY 255 PM EST. AT 236 PM EST...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED DEBRIS ON INTERSTATE 75 NEAR MILE MARKER 123. 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 2643 8185 2631 8171 2655 8140 2671 8157 $$ 72
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 10:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 11:03 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 57 min | |
| Mar 27, 11:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 52 min |
| Mar 27, 11:52 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 53 min | |
| Mar 27, 12:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Lee | 65 min |
| Mar 27, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 30 min |
| Mar 27, 1:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Levy | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 1:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 1:34 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 56 min | |
| Mar 27, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Citrus | 30 min |
| Mar 27, 2:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando | 29 min |
| Mar 27, 2:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Levy | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 2:10 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 2 hr | |
| Mar 27, 2:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Citrus, Sumter | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 2:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando, Pasco | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 2:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Levy | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 2:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando, Pasco | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 3:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 22 min |
| Mar 27, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 38 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.