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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

February 2, 2007Citrus County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 2007, 2:14 AM EST for Citrus County, Florida. It was in force for 46 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: Feb 2, 2007, 2:14 AM EST (07:14 UTC)
Expired: Feb 2, 2007, 3:00 AM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Citrus County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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
Feb 2, 12:52 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 424 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 498 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTBW 020714
TORTBW
FLC017-020800-
/O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0002.070202T0714Z-070202T0800Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
214 AM EST FRI FEB 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 AM EST

* AT 214 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF HOMOSASSA SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CHASSAHOWITZKA BY 225 AM EST.
  HOMOSASSA SPRINGS BY 230 AM EST.
  BEVERLY HILLS BY 240 AM EST.
  INVERNESS BY 245 AM EST.

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.

TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW MOVE TO
A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
ABANDON MOBILE HOMES. LEAVE VEHICLES AND GET INTO A DITCH OR LOW
SPOT.

PLEASE REPORT TORNADOES OR FUNNEL CLOUDS...WINDS OF 58 MPH OR
HIGHER...HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES OF LARGER...AND ANY WIND DAMAGE TO
YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN BY CALLING 813-645-2323.


&&

LAT...LON 2879 8291 2862 8284 2880 8220 2897 8234

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KTBW 020759
SVSTBW

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
259 AM EST FRI FEB 2 2007

FLC017-020809-
/O.EXP.KTBW.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070202T0800Z/
CITRUS-
259 AM EST FRI FEB 2 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CITRUS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 300 AM EST...

AT 259 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADO 
THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING...HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE 
WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM.


&&

LAT...LON 2879 8291 2862 8284 2880 8220 2897 8234

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 1, 8:41 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		64 min
Feb 1, 11:19 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TBW	Citrus	26 min
Feb 2, 1:04 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		56 min
Feb 2, 1:58 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		32 min
Feb 2, 2:59 AM EST	Coastal Flood Warning	TBW		4 hr
Feb 2, 3:02 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TBW	Sumter	18 min
Feb 2, 6:16 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		29 min
Feb 2, 7:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	19 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.