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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 10, 2005Pinellas County, Florida

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.

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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2005-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 927 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2005-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 410 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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

$$

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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

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 6:52 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW53 min
Jul 10, 6:58 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWSarasota32 min
Jul 10, 7:10 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWManatee32 min
Jul 10, 8:10 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW65 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.