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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2004, 2:18 PM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 14, 2004, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2004, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 141818 TORTBW FLC105-141845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 217 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN POLK COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 217 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTHERN POLK COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... RURAL SOUTHERN POLK COUNTY. FORT MEADE. 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 2765 8186 2765 8170 2782 8168 2782 8187 $$ 25
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sumter | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 1:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 31 min | |
| Aug 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 57 min | |
| Aug 14, 1:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 2:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 47 min | |
| Aug 14, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 2:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 65 min | |
| Aug 14, 3:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 13 min |
| Aug 14, 4:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Pasco | 65 min |
| Aug 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 61 min | |
| Aug 14, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Levy | 21 min |
| Aug 14, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 5:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Levy | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 54 min | |
| Aug 14, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 64 min | |
| Aug 14, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.