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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 8:32 AM EDT for 4 counties in 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
- Sep 6, 2004, 8:32 AM EDT (12:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2004, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hardee County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Polk County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 457 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
390 WFUS52 KTBW 061232 TORTBW FLC049-057-081-105-061300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 830 AM EDT MON SEP 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN HARDEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. SOUTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY IN FLORIDA. SOUTHEASTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY IN FLORIDA. EASTERN MANATEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 900 AM EDT * AT 830 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH SEVERAL TORNADOS OVER EASTERN MANATEE AND SOUTHEAST HILLSBOROUGH COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... DUETTE. MYAKKA HEAD. FORT LONESOME. FORT GREEN. BRADLEY JUNCTION. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. 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. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE INTO A STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. && LAT...LON 2734 8225 2734 8211 2788 8177 2789 8221 $$ 25
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 6:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Highlands | 34 min |
| Sep 6, 6:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 29 min |
| Sep 6, 7:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Lee, Polk | 59 min |
| Sep 6, 7:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Highlands, Polk | 61 min |
| Sep 6, 9:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Manatee, Polk | 26 min |
| Sep 6, 9:24 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 36 min | |
| Sep 6, 9:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 31 min |
| Sep 6, 10:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Polk | 24 min |
| Sep 6, 11:46 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 119 min | |
| Sep 6, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 30 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.