Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2006, 2:57 PM EDT for DeSoto County, Florida. It was in force for 18 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2006, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2006, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeSoto County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:18 PM EDT | TORNADO | 3 N Arcadia, FL | FUNNEL EXTENDED 3/4 OF THE WAY TO THE GROUND. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 9:07 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTBW 121857 TORTBW FLC027-121915- /O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0009.060612T1857Z-060612T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 257 PM EDT MON JUN 12 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 257 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF ARCADIA...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... ARCADIA BY 300 PM 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. 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 8204 2709 8190 2731 8183 2732 8204 $$ 57
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KTBW 121904 SVSTBW SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 304 PM EDT MON JUN 12 2006 FLC027-121915- /O.CON.KTBW.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060612T1915Z/ DESOTO- 304 PM EDT MON JUN 12 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR WESTERN DESOTO COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM EDT... AT 304 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF ARCADIA...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... PINE LEVEL. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM ACT QUICKLY. GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. COVER YOUR HEAD WITH PILLOWS OR BLANKETS. && LAT...LON 2710 8204 2709 8190 2731 8183 2732 8204 $$ 57
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, 6:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 29 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, 3:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee | 14 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.