Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2009, 8:25 AM EDT for Pasco County, Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 16 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
- Apr 14, 2009, 8:25 AM EDT (12:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2009, 8:41 AM EDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:24 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:31 AM EDT | TORNADO | 4 E Holiday, FL | TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTED IN TRINITY OAKS SUBDIVISION. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 6:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KTBW 141225
TORTBW
FLC101-103-141300-
/O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0002.090414T1225Z-090414T1300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
825 AM EDT TUE APR 14 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN PASCO COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
NORTHERN PINELLAS COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
* UNTIL 900 AM EDT
* AT 825 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO NEAR DUNEDIN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
DUNEDIN.
PALM HARBOR.
TARPON SPRINGS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IN
A STRONG AND WELL CONSTRUCTED BUILDING. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES ARE NOT
SAFE IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH OR CULVERT AND
COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASE CALL
813-645-2323.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA.
&&
LAT...LON 2817 8280 2820 8279 2825 8264 2808 8265
2800 8283 2808 8284 2809 8282 2804 8280
2815 8279 2817 8282 2816 8284 2817 8286
TIME...MOT...LOC 1225Z 250DEG 38KT 2808 8283
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KTBW 141241
SVSTBW
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
841 AM EDT TUE APR 14 2009
FLC101-103-141252-
/O.CAN.KTBW.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090414T1300Z/
PINELLAS FL-PASCO FL-
841 AM EDT TUE APR 14 2009
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN PASCO AND NORTHERN PINELLAS
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 2817 8280 2820 8279 2825 8264 2808 8265
2800 8283 2808 8284 2809 8282 2804 8280
2815 8279 2817 8282 2816 8284 2817 8286
TIME...MOT...LOC 1242Z 250DEG 38KT 2814 8264
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 82 min | |
| Apr 13, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Levy | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 3:34 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 26 min | |
| Apr 14, 4:00 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter | 16 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:57 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 63 min | |
| Apr 14, 7:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Citrus, Levy | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 7:57 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 63 min | |
| Apr 14, 8:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Levy, Sumter | 53 min |
| Apr 14, 8:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 8:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 65 min | |
| Apr 14, 8:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 8:57 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Citrus | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 9:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk, Sumter | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 9:09 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 66 min | |
| Apr 14, 10:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Manatee | 57 min |
| Apr 14, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 56 min | |
| Apr 14, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 86 min | |
| Apr 14, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk | 59 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.