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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 30, 2004Hardee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 30, 2004, 4:32 PM EDT for Hardee County, Florida. It was in force for 28 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 30, 2004, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hardee County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 2004-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1999 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 2004-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
1999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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 302032
TORTBW
FLC049-302100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
433 PM EDT MON AUG 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HARDEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 433 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTH OF WAUCHULA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  ZOLFO SPRINGS BY 500 PM EDT.


&&

LAT...LON 2737 8202 2733 8184 2738 8165 2755 8181

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPolk34 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.