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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

September 19, 2004Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 19, 2004, 3:49 PM EDT for Lee 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
Sep 19, 2004, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Sep 19, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
26 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), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 2004-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 834 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 2004-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
834 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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 191954
TORTBW
FLC071-192015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
348 PM EDT SUN SEP 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 348 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER CAPE CORAL...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  CAPE CORAL
  SANIBEL
  PINE ISLAND

AT 340 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS 
REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN SOUTHWEST CAPE CORAL

FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. CONDITIONS REMAIN 
FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING 
IMMEDIATELY...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN RUSKIN.


&&

LAT...LON 2643 8188 2666 8202 2666 8226 2640 8215

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW35 min
Sep 19, 3:54 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWLee21 min
Sep 19, 4:15 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWLee30 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.