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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 8, 2004Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2004, 4:17 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 28 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 2004, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2004, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
28 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), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 4:18 PM EDTTORNADOCape Coral, FLCAPE CORAL FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD SEVERAL PUBLIC REPORTS OF TORNADO IN THE AREA OF 3700 BLOCK OF OASIS
Jun 8, 4:23 PM EDTTSTM WND GST 58Cape Coral, FL2.5 INCH DIAMETER TREE BRANCHES DOWN
Jun 8, 4:31 PM EDTHAIL 0.88Cape Coral, FL
Jun 8, 4:46 PM EDTTORNADOPine Island, FLFOX TV 4 RELAYED PUBLIC REPORTS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 2004-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 362 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 2004-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 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.

407 
WFUS52 KTBW 082017
TORTBW
FLC071-082045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
417 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 417 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER CAPE CORAL...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

AT 417 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ALSO REPORTED A TOUCHDOWN 
IN CAPE CORAL.

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 2650 8197 2667 8187 2677 8209 2656 8219

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWLee41 min
Jun 8, 4:20 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW55 min
Jun 8, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSarasota56 min
Jun 8, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW62 min
Jun 8, 5:11 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW64 min
Jun 8, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWManatee47 min
Jun 8, 5:22 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWManatee23 min
Jun 8, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWLevy35 min
Jun 8, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough49 min
Jun 8, 5:49 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPinellas26 min
Jun 8, 5:58 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW62 min
Jun 8, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPinellas42 min
Jun 8, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPasco49 min
Jun 8, 6:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW67 min
Jun 8, 7:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW86 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.