Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2005, 6:46 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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
- Apr 23, 2005, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2005, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hillsborough County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 232246 TORTBW FLC057-232315- /O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0003.050423T2246Z-050423T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 646 PM EDT SAT APR 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 646 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRANDON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... SEFFNER. PLANT CITY. 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 2809 8236 2791 8236 2789 8206 2811 8207 $$ 17
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KTBW 232300 SVSTBW SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 658 PM EDT SAT APR 23 2005 FLC057-232315- /O.CON.KTBW.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050423T2315Z/ HILLSBOROUGH- 658 PM EDT SAT APR 23 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM EDT... AT 658 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF PLANT CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... DOVER. PLANT CITY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM ACT QUICKLY. GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. COVER YOUR HEAD WITH PILLOWS OR BLANKETS. && LAT...LON 2809 8236 2791 8236 2789 8206 2811 8207 $$ 17
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 70 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.