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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2003, 2:42 PM EST for Levy County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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, 2:42 PM EST (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2003, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Levy County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
960 WFUS52 KTBW 271942 TORTBW FLC075-272030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 242 PM EST THU MAR 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LEVY COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 330 PM EST * AT 242 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A FORMING TORANDO WITH LARGE HAIL...16 MILES SOUTH OF BRONSON... MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... LEBANON. BRONSON. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS LIKELY. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. && LAT...LON 2912 8270 2915 8250 2966 8256 2962 8282 $$
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, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 23 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.