Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 1:15 PM EDT for Highlands County, 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
- Aug 13, 2004, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Highlands County, FL, Polk County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:16 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 131715 TORTBW FLC055-105-131745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 115 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL POLK COUNTY IN FLORIDA. NORTHWESTERN HIGHLANDS COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 145 PM EDT * AT 115 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER AVON PARK...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... AVON PARK. FROSTPROOF. LAKE WALES. CYPRESS GARDENS. 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. 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 2756 8157 2760 8138 2809 8150 2803 8174 $$ 25
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 1:39 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 51 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:47 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 58 min | |
| Aug 13, 4:02 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 58 min | |
| Aug 13, 4:02 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 58 min | |
| Aug 13, 5:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 60 min | |
| Aug 13, 11:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Highlands | 23 min |
| Aug 13, 12:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Highlands | 24 min |
| Aug 13, 12:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 25 min |
| Aug 13, 1:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sumter | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 2:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 3:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Highlands | 31 min |
| Aug 13, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 67 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee, Sarasota | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Highlands | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 29 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.