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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2006, 10:54 PM EDT for Pasco County, Florida. It was in force for 21 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 12, 2006, 10:54 PM EDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2006, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pasco County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 9:41 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 130253 TORTBW FLC101-130315- /O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0013.060613T0254Z-060613T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 1054 PM EDT MON JUN 12 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PASCO COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1054 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER NORTHERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... WESLEY CHAPEL. SAN ANTONIO. 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 2817 8251 2818 8229 2842 8225 2842 8251 $$ 24
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KTBW 130316 SVSTBW SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 1115 PM EDT MON JUN 12 2006 FLC101-130325- /O.EXP.KTBW.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060613T0315Z/ PASCO- 1115 PM EDT MON JUN 12 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL PASCO COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1115 PM EDT... AT 1115 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADO HAD DISSIPATED...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. && LAT...LON 2817 8251 2818 8229 2842 8225 2842 8251 $$ 24
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 45 min | |
| Jun 12, 9:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 21 min |
| Jun 12, 10:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 18 min |
| Jun 12, 11:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 10 min |
| Jun 13, 1:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 21 min |
| Jun 13, 11:10 AM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Warning | TBW | 6 hr |
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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.