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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 12, 2006Sarasota County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2006, 6:46 AM EDT for Sarasota 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: Jun 12, 2006, 6:46 AM EDT (10:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2006, 7:15 AM EDT
In force: 29 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), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 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 nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1088 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 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 121047
TORTBW
FLC115-121115-
/O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0002.060612T1046Z-060612T1115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
646 AM EDT MON JUN 12 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 AM EDT

* AT 646 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF SARASOTA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT...
  SIESTA KEY.
  CORAL COVE.
  VAMO.
  SARASOTA.
  FRUITVILLE.

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.

IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE INTO A STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...
SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD
WITH YOUR HANDS.


&&

LAT...LON 2710 8261 2712 8241 2738 8237 2738 8259

$$

24

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KTBW 121115
SVSTBW

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
715 AM EDT MON JUN 12 2006

FLC115-121125-
/O.EXP.KTBW.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060612T1115Z/
SARASOTA-
715 AM EDT MON JUN 12 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN SARASOTA COUNTY EXPIRED AT
715 AM EDT...

AT 715 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADO
HAD DISSIPATED...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

&&

LAT...LON 2710 8261 2712 8241 2738 8237 2738 8259

$$

JLC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		55 min
Jun 11, 11:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		56 min
Jun 12, 4:39 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		36 min
Jun 12, 5:30 AM EDT	Inland Tropical Storm Warning	TBW	Pinellas, Polk, Sumter	30 hr
Jun 12, 5:49 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		56 min
Jun 12, 6:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hardee	20 min
Jun 12, 6:49 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		26 min
Jun 12, 7:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	30 min
Jun 12, 8:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Manatee	13 min
Jun 12, 8:59 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hillsborough	31 min
Jun 12, 9:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Hardee	38 min
Jun 12, 9:44 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	DeSoto, Manatee	31 min
Jun 12, 10:11 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hardee, Manatee	30 min
Jun 12, 10:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hardee	37 min
Jun 12, 10:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Hillsborough	36 min
Jun 12, 12:07 PM EDT	Inland Hurricane Warning	TBW		23 hr
Jun 12, 2:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hardee	20 min
Jun 12, 2:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	DeSoto	18 min
Jun 12, 3:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	DeSoto, Hardee	14 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.