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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

May 19, 2003Pinellas County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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
May 19, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pinellas County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 44 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 2003-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1772 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 2003-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
1772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 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.

000 
WFUS52 KTBW 191845
TORTBW
FLC103-191915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
245 PM EDT MON MAY 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PINELLAS COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 245 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  TORNADO DEVELOPING IN THE CLEARWATER AREA...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  CLEARWATER BY 245 PM EDT.
  INDIAN ROCKS BEACH BY 300 PM EDT.
  LARGO BY 310 PM EDT.
  PINELLAS PARK BY 315 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 2807 8272 2800 8291 2775 8282 2784 8259

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPinellas35 min
May 19, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough36 min
May 19, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough28 min
May 19, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPolk31 min
May 19, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWDeSoto28 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.