1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 12:41 PM EST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 141 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2001 CURRENTLY: SLOWER START TO CONVECTION AS PLANNED. EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF THUNDERSHOWERS IN DESOTO COUNTY ALL THINGS ARE QUIET SO FAR. LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING BOUNDARY COLLISION SHOULD LIGHT THINGS UP...HOWEVER. FORECAST: 12Z MODELS STILL SUPPORTING THE SAME GENERAL TREND THAT HAS BEEN ADVERTISED. THURSDAY WILL BE A TRANSITION DAY AS THE SURFACE RIDGE SLIDES INTO THE SOUTH CENTRAL FA BY LATE IN THE DAY. CONVECTION WILL BE A LITTLE EARLIER NORTH OF TAMPA BAY THURSDAY WITH SOME MORNING ACTIVITY POSSIBLE COMING IN OFF THE GULF. CONVECTION WILL STILL GENERALLY BE IN THE AFTERNOON ALONG THE SOUTHWEST COAST CLOSER TO THE RIDGE AXIS. BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON RIDGE WILL HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE AREA AS UPPER LEVEL TROF DEEPENS OVER THE EASTERN U.S. AND A WEAK COLD FRONT STARTS MOVING INTO THE PANHANDLE. THIS WILL GIVE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW TO ALL AREAS LATER FRIDAY WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON CONVECTION OVER THE INTERIOR PORTIONS OF THE CWA. CLIMO TEMPS EXPECTED THURSDAY...THEN WARMER NIGHTS ALONG THE COAST BY FRIDAY WITH THE ONSHORE FLOW. PLENTY OF MOISTURE TO SUPPORT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. MARINE: NO HEADLINES NEEDED. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO MORE SOUTHWESTERLY BY FRIDAY AND CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND. EXTENDED: SOUTHWESTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY...THEN SHIFT BACK TO SOUTHEASTERLY BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AS SURFACE RIDGE SLIDES BACK NORTHWARD. AVN SHOWS A PRETTY STRONG VORT MAX FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR ROUNDING THE UPPER TROF AND PASSING OVERHEAD ON SATURDAY...WHICH SUPPORTS NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS IN FORECAST. PRELIM NUMBERS: TPA 73/92/75/91 4545 FMY 73/92/73/92 4545 .TBW...NONE. ALSHEIMER
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:34 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The public reported, through WWSB-TV (ABC) of Sarasota, a small tornado that briefly touched down over a sparsely populated, partially wooded area, near the intersection of Interstate 75 and State Road 681, two miles northeast of Laurel in western Sarasota county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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