Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2004, 5:49 PM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 8, 2004, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pinellas County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
572 WFUS52 KTBW 082149 TORTBW FLC103-082215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 549 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PINELLAS COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 549 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAINT PETE BEACH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... GULFPORT BY 605 PM EDT. SAINT PETE BEACH BY 610 PM EDT. TREASURE ISLAND BY 615 PM EDT. 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 2758 8259 2776 8257 2780 8288 2757 8290 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Lee | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 55 min | |
| Jun 8, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 62 min | |
| Jun 8, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 64 min | |
| Jun 8, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 5:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Levy | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 62 min | |
| Jun 8, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 67 min | |
| Jun 8, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 86 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.