Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 17, 2016, 3:49 AM EST for Charlotte County, Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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
- Jan 17, 2016, 3:49 AM EST (08:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2016, 4:15 AM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 4:00 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Englewood, FL | PUBLIC REPORTED MINOR ROOF DAMAGE IN ENGLEWOOD BEACH AREA. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 12:47 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1407 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
290
WFUS52 KTBW 170849
TORTBW
FLC015-115-170915-
/O.NEW.KTBW.TO.W.0008.160117T0849Z-160117T0915Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA / RUSKIN FL
349 AM EST SUN JAN 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SARASOTA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA...
NORTHWESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 415 AM EST
* AT 347 AM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PORT...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
NORTH PORT AROUND 410 AM EST.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
NOKOMIS...GROVE CITY...MURDOCK...SOUTH VENICE...WARM MINERAL
SPRINGS...GULF COVE...EL JOBEAN...VENICE GARDENS AND ROTONDA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A MOBILE
HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 2689 8231 2691 8235 2692 8234 2694 8237
2694 8235 2695 8236 2695 8238 2698 8238
2698 8240 2705 8244 2705 8245 2710 8246
2725 8231 2701 8208 2687 8231
TIME...MOT...LOC 0847Z 225DEG 58KT 2685 8256
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$1 follow-up statement
180
WWUS52 KTBW 170904
SVSTBW
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA / RUSKIN FL
404 AM EST SUN JAN 17 2016
FLC015-115-170915-
/O.CON.KTBW.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160117T0915Z/
SARASOTA FL-CHARLOTTE FL-
404 AM EST SUN JAN 17 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 AM EST FOR SARASOTA
AND NORTHWESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTIES...
AT 403 AM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF NORTH PORT BETWEEN SOUTH VENICE AND
ENGLEWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
NORTH PORT AROUND 410 AM EST.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
MURDOCK...SOUTH VENICE...WARM MINERAL SPRINGS...GULF COVE...EL JOBEAN
AND VENICE GARDENS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A MOBILE
HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 2694 8237 2694 8235 2695 8236 2695 8238
2698 8238 2698 8240 2705 8244 2705 8245
2725 8231 2701 8208 2692 8234
TIME...MOT...LOC 0903Z 225DEG 58KT 2703 8236
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 1:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Pinellas | 27 min |
| Jan 17, 1:51 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 39 min | |
| Jan 17, 2:03 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 42 min | |
| Jan 17, 2:35 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Hillsborough, Pinellas | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:41 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 49 min | |
| Jan 17, 2:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Sarasota | 58 min |
| Jan 17, 2:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee, Sarasota | 38 min |
| Jan 17, 2:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee, Sarasota | 34 min |
| Jan 17, 3:00 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 60 min | |
| Jan 17, 3:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk, Sumter | 31 min |
| Jan 17, 3:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Manatee | 33 min |
| Jan 17, 3:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 32 min |
| Jan 17, 3:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee, Sarasota | 27 min |
| Jan 17, 3:34 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 26 min | |
| Jan 17, 3:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 20 min |
| Jan 17, 3:39 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 36 min | |
| Jan 17, 3:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk | 12 min |
| Jan 17, 3:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 14 min |
| Jan 17, 4:02 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hillsborough, Polk | 43 min |
| Jan 17, 4:03 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Charlotte, Lee, Manatee, Sarasota | 117 min |
| Jan 17, 4:05 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 55 min | |
| Jan 17, 4:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Lee | 45 min |
| Jan 17, 4:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Manatee, Polk, Sarasota | 30 min |
| Jan 17, 4:17 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Manatee, Sarasota | 43 min |
| Jan 17, 4:24 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 36 min |
| Jan 17, 4:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Sarasota | 39 min |
| Jan 17, 4:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota | 31 min |
| Jan 17, 4:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hardee, Highlands, Polk | 55 min |
| Jan 17, 4:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Lee | 32 min |
| Jan 17, 5:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte | 23 min |
| Jan 17, 5:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 10:08 AM EST | River Flood Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 4 days |
| Jan 17, 10:08 AM EST | River Flood Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 24 hr |
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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.