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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 15, 2010Hardee County, Highlands County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2010, 4:45 PM EDT for Hardee County, Highlands County, Florida. It was in force for 15 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 15, 2010, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2010, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Hardee County, FL, Highlands County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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 nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 2441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

022 
WFUS52 KTBW 152045
TORTBW
FLC049-055-152100-
/O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0013.100615T2045Z-100615T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
445 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HARDEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
  NORTHWESTERN HIGHLANDS COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 442 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER NORTHWESTERN HIGHLANDS COUNTY...OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF AVON PARK.  NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN HIGHLANDS COUNTY.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 2746 8156 2752 8161 2755 8154 2751 8151
TIME...MOT...LOC 2045Z 046DEG 1KT 2752 8155

$$

1 follow-up statement

564 
WWUS52 KTBW 152058
SVSTBW

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
458 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

FLC049-055-152108-
/O.EXP.KTBW.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-100615T2100Z/
HARDEE FL-HIGHLANDS FL-
458 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN HIGHLANDS AND EASTERN HARDEE
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM EDT...

RADAR NO LONGER DETECTS A TORNADO...HOWEVER THE STORM WILL CONTINUE 
TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL UNTIL IT 
FULLY DISSIPATES.

LAT...LON 2746 8156 2752 8161 2755 8154 2751 8151
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 046DEG 1KT 2752 8155

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Hillsborough	46 min
Jun 15, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Pasco	51 min
Jun 15, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Manatee	50 min
Jun 15, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Manatee	46 min
Jun 15, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	DeSoto	48 min
Jun 15, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Lee	40 min
Jun 15, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Polk	34 min
Jun 15, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Levy	50 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.