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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 1, 2005Hardee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2005, 2:53 AM EDT for Hardee County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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, 2:53 AM EDT (06:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2005, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hardee County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 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
May 31, 10:40 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 010653
TORTBW
FLC049-010745-
/O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0008.050601T0653Z-050601T0745Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARDEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 345 AM EDT

* AT 253 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUCHULA...MOVING         
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  LILY BY 255 AM EDT.
  ONA BY 315 AM EDT.
  ZOLFO SPRINGS BY 330 AM EDT.
  WAUCHULA BY 335 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.

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 2744 8205 2734 8205 2734 8189 2757 8161
      2764 8197

$$

17

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KTBW 010729
SVSTBW

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

FLC049-010745-
/O.CON.KTBW.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050601T0745Z/
HARDEE-
329 AM EDT WED JUN 1 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR HARDEE COUNTY UNTIL 345 AM EDT...

AT 329 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUCHULA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 
20 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  ONA.
  ZOLFO SPRINGS.
  FORT GREEN.
  WAUCHULA.

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 2744 8205 2734 8205 2734 8189 2757 8161
      2764 8197

$$

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, 1:42 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Sarasota	48 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.