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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 41 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1040 AM EST SUN FEB 27 2005 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COASTAL WATERS EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY MORNING AND EVENING FROM 1040 AM UNTIL 600 PM EST. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 85 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF SARASOTA FLORIDA TO 15 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF MELBOURNE FLORIDA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1). REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DISCUSSION...STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY INCREASE IN INTENSITY ACROSS CNTRL FL THIS AFTERNOON. BREAKS IN CLOUDS SHOULD ALLOW FOR SOME SURFACE HEATING OVER S CNTRL FL AND CONTRIBUTE TO MARGINAL INSTABILITY. ATMOSPHERE IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY DESTABILIZE NWD WITH TIME AS BOUNDARY LIFTS SLOWLY NORTH THROUGH CNTRL FL. STRONG SHEAR PROFILES WILL SUPPORT SUPERCELLS WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 400. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25035. |
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...despite A Strong Low Level Jet And A Tongue Of Upper Level Divergence Over The Region...low Level Winds Have Veered Around To A Unidirectional Profile. Any Further Storms That Develop Later This Aftn Will Still Have The Possibility Of Producing Damaging Winds... But The Threat For Tornadoes Has Diminished. Thus Tornado Watch 41 Is Discontinued For West Central And Southwest Florida. Whew... I am a bit glad that it is over at last. Didn’t even see a water spout, but the anticipation of these things stresses me out. Sarasota and Polk County got hit hard. I was just on the outer fringes of it, and was spared the more interesting side of the outbreak. Now everyone in the north east has to deal with this system in an entierly different form. |