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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 1, 2005Sarasota County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2005, 1:42 AM EDT for Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 1, 2005, 1:42 AM EDT (05:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2005, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sarasota County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 31, 10:40 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTBW 010549
TORTBW
FLC115-010630-
/O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0007.050601T0542Z-050601T0630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
142 AM EDT WED JUN 1 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SARASOTA COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 230 AM EDT

* AT 142 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF ENGLEWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  WARM MINERAL SPRINGS.
  NORTH PORT.

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.

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 2713 8237 2721 8226 2708 8212 2707 8212
      2704 8216 2704 8226 2695 8228 2695 8235
      2705 8244

$$

17

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KTBW 010607
SVSTBW

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
206 AM EDT WED JUN 1 2005

FLC115-010630-
/O.CON.KTBW.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050601T0630Z/
SARASOTA-
206 AM EDT WED JUN 1 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHERN SARASOTA COUNTY UNTIL 230
AM EDT...

AT 206 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF ENGLEWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST 
AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  VENICE GARDENS.
  WARM MINERAL SPRINGS.
  NORTH PORT.

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.

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

&&

LAT...LON 2713 8237 2721 8226 2708 8212 2707 8212
      2704 8216 2704 8226 2695 8228 2695 8235
      2705 8244

$$

17

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		42 min
May 31, 10:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		59 min
May 31, 10:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pasco, Pinellas	39 min
Jun 1, 2:53 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hardee	52 min
Jun 1, 3:54 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		66 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.