Feeder bands associated with the southwest side of what was Hurricane Charley produced several tornadoes the day after Charley moved through the area.
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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 episode as NWS TBW wrote it up.
Feeder bands associated with the southwest side of what was Hurricane Charley produced several tornadoes the day after Charley moved through the area.
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 14, 8:00 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 900 AM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004 .FOR THE MORNING UPDATE...DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE REMAINS OVER THE REGION IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE CHARLIE. DEEP SOUTHWEST FLOW REMAINS OVER THE AREA...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO SPREADING ONSHORE OF THE NORTHERN FORECAST AREA. A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO OVER SOUTHWEST FLORIDA LIFTING SLOWLY NORTH. DAYTIME HEATING WILL LEAD TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. CURRENT FORECAST IS ON TRACK WITH NO UPDATE TO THE ZONES PLANNED. && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. OGLESBY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 530 AM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-141430- CHARLOTTE-CITRUS-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HERNANDO-HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-LEE- LEVY-MANATEE-PASCO-PINELLAS-POLK-SARASOTA-SUMTER- 530 AM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AS LEFTOVER MOISTURE FROM HURRICANE CHARLEY COMBINES WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM STRONGER CELLS WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS THAT COULD CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: SCATTERED 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 WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW (LOWER CASE) PRC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1144 AM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004
FLZ039-042-043-048-049-051-055-141645-
CITRUS-HERNANDO-HILLSBOROUGH-LEVY-MANATEE-PASCO-SUMTER-
1144 AM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004
...FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE POSSIBLE IN MANATEE...EASTERN
HERNANDO...EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH...EASTERN CITRUS...EASTERN
LEVY...SUMTER AND EASTERN PASCO COUNTIES...
A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST INTO INTERIOR SECTIONS OF
COASTAL COUNTIES HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE FUNNEL CLOUDS EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 1145 AM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD IN
SUMTER COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
FUNNEL CLOUDS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
FUNNEL CLOUDS CAN BECOME BRIEF...SMALL...BUT DANGEROUS TORNADOES.
MOVE INDOORS ..AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 2932 8253 2746 8253 2739 8234 2742 8206
2822 8212 2931 8206
25The Tampa radar (KTBW), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:05 UTC.
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained SKYWARN Severe Weather Spotter reported three brief tornadoes near Lake Lindsey Road and Broad Street in rural northeast Hernando County.
A brief tornado was reported near Osceola Drive and Massachusetts. No damage was reported.
Law enforcement witnessed a tornado that knocked down several trees and large limbs.
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: 5422755, 5422756, 5422757.