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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 14, 2004Levy County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2004, 5:33 PM EDT for Levy 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, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Levy County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 142133
TORTBW
FLC075-142200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
533 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LEVY COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 533 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF CHIEFLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  NORTH CHIEFLAND BY 535 PM EDT.

AT 533 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ALSO REPORTED A TORNADO 
NORTH OF CHIEFLAND


&&

LAT...LON 2951 8300 2943 8281 2968 8264 2977 8288

$$

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, 2:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	27 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, 5:36 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.