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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 8:07 AM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2005, 8:07 AM EDT (12:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2005, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pinellas County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:10 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 410 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 513 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 101206 TORTBW FLC103-101230- /O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0021.050710T1207Z-050710T1230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 807 AM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PINELLAS COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 830 AM EDT * AT 807 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER LARGO...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... LARGO BY 805 AM EDT. CLEARWATER BY 810 AM EDT. DUNEDIN BY 815 AM EDT. PALM HARBOR BY 820 AM EDT. TARPON SPRINGS BY 825 AM 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 2444 8332 $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KTBW 101230
SVSTBW
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
830 AM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005
FLC103-101237-
/O.EXP.KTBW.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050710T1230Z/
PINELLAS-
830 AM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PINELLAS COUNTY EXPIRED AT 830 AM EDT...
AT 830 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADO
HAD MOVED OFFSHORE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL
POSSIBLE FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT. STAY TUNED TO
LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
&&
LAT...LON 2817 8285 2805 8281 2817 8280 2817 8265
2801 8265 2798 8270 2797 8264 2795 8272
2788 8258 2790 8257 2767 8268 2773 8272
2772 8274 2761 8272 2761 8274 2776 8276
2786 8286
$$
57The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 6:52 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 53 min | |
| Jul 10, 6:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 32 min |
| Jul 10, 7:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 32 min |
| Jul 10, 8:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 65 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.