2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 Aug 13, 1:08 PM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 208 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 QUICK UPDATE. WILL BE UPDATING ZONES AND COASTAL MARINE FORECASTS SHORTLY TO INCLUDE THE NEWLY ISSUED TORNADO WATCH #750 WHICH WILL COVER ALL OF THE FORECAST AREA UNTIL 2 AM EDT SATURDAY MORNING. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION BELOW. ----------------------------------------------------------------- HURRICANE CHARLEY CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTH UP ALONG THE FLORIDA WEST COAST THIS MORNING. LATEST COORD WITH TPC SHOWS LITTLE OVERALL CHANGE IN THE OVERALL FORECAST TRACK WITH CHARLEY FORECASTED TO AFFECT THE TAMPA BAY AREA BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT. ONGOING ZONES LOOK GOOD FOR NOW...SO NO MORNING UPDATES PLANNED. WILL UPDATE THE COASTAL MARINE FORECAST SHORTLY WITH ONLY MINOR TWEAKS EXPECTED. && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HURRICANE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM BONITA BEACH TO SUWANNEE RIVER OUT 60NM INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF LEVY...CITRUS...HERNANDO...PASCO... PINELLAS...HILLSBOROUGH...MANATEE...SARASOTA...CHARLOTTE... DESOTO...AND LEE. INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING FOR SUMTER...POLK...HARDEE AND HIGHLANDS COUNTIES. TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 5 PM TODAY FOR PINELLAS...HILLSBOROUGH...POLK... MANATEE...HARDEE...DESOTO...HIGHLANDS...SARASOTA...CHARLOTTE AND LEE COUNTIES. FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY FOR LEVY...CITRUS...SUMTER... HERNANDO...PASCO...PINELLAS...HILLSBOROUGH...POLK...MANATEE... SARASOTA...HARDEE...DESOTO...HIGHLANDS...CHARLOTTE...AND LEE COUNTIES SHORT TERM...JCM LONG TERM...RD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 634 AM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-131520- CHARLOTTE-CITRUS-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HERNANDO-HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-LEE- LEVY-MANATEE-PASCO-PINELLAS-POLK-SARASOTA-SUMTER- 634 AM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. ...HURRICANE CHARLEY HEADED FOR THE SUNCOAST TODAY... ...HURRICANE WARNING ARE IN EFFECT FROM BONITA BEACH TO SUWANNEE RIVER INCLUDING TAMPA BAY... .DAY ONE...TODAY: ...SYNOPSIS... HURRICANE CHARLEY WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTH TOWARD THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA AND IS EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS FROM THIS STORM WILL BE WIND DAMAGE...AS WELL AS STORM SURGE OVER AND SOUTH OF WHERE CHARLEY MAKES LANDFALL. HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING REMAIN A SECONDARY HAZARD...BUT THE SPEED OF THE STORM SHOULD LIMIT THE EXTENT AND AMOUNT OF HEAVY RAINS ON THE SUNCOAST. ...EXPECTED WIND HAZARDS... ON ITS CURRENT TRACK...TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE UP THE COAST BY THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED HURRICANE FORCE WINDS AND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE VERY NEAR WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN SEMICIRCLE OF THE STORM. WIDESPREAD MINOR TO MODERATE WIND DAMAGE IS A REAL POSSIBILITY WITH THIS STORM...EVEN WELL INLAND. ...STORM SURGE... THE MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WILL CAUSE THE POTENTIAL FOR A RAPID RISE IN WATER LEVELS ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF WHERE THE CENTER CROSSES LAND. THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY WHERE EXACTLY THE CENTER WILL CROSS...AS THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR THE STORM TO TRACK VERY CLOSE TO THE COAST BEFORE SWINGING INLAND. ...HEAVY RAINS... STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED AND WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SUNCOAST...ANY ADDITIONAL WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINS COULD EXACERBATE THE FLOOD POTENTIAL ON RAIN SWOLLEN RIVERS AND LOW LYING OR POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY: SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM STRONGER CELLS WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY TODAY AS CHARLEY SWEEPS UP THE SUNCOAST. && FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW (LOWER CASE) FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE INFORMATION...CHECK OUT HTTP://WWW.NHC.NOAA.GOV PRC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 150 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-GMZ830-850-853-856-140600- CHARLOTTE-CITRUS-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HERNANDO-HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-LEE- LEVY-MANATEE-PASCO-PINELLAS-POLK-SARASOTA-SUMTER- 150 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 750 IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PASCO...SUMTER...LEVY...CITRUS...HILLSBOROUGH...SARASOTA... HERNANDO...POLK...HIGHLANDS...HARDEE...DE SOTO...PINELLAS...LEE... CHARLOTTE AND MANATEE COUNTIES. MAJOR HURRICANE CHARLEY IS FORECAST TO MAKE LANDFALL ALONG THE FLORIDA WEST COAST LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. MULTIPLE BANDS OF CONVECTION AHEAD OF THE HURRICANE WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH AND NORTHWESTWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH TONIGHT. INCREASING WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY WITHIN THESE BANDS WILL INCREASE THE THREAT OF SMALL FAST MOVING TORNADOES WITHIN THE WATCH AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES. && FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW (LOWER CASE) JCM
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:41 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A waterspout moved asshore and downed seven trees before lifting.
A storm survey showed a convergent damage pattern and an increase in apparent wind intensity consistent with a tornado. The most pronounced damage pattern was in a small area of southern Captiva Island. Damage reached the Fujita Scale F2 intensity that was was mix of both tornado and hurricane wind damage, making an assessment difficult.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 2004Warnings in Florida, August 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5422828, 5422829.