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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 1:45 PM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2004, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
| Sep 6, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.
811 WFUS52 KTBW 061745 TORTBW FLC105-061815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 146 PM EDT MON SEP 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN POLK COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 146 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE WALES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... LAKE WALES BY 155 PM EDT. && LAT...LON 2779 8178 2769 8162 2809 8126 2822 8147 $$
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, 8:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk | 28 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 |
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.