Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1990, 5:04 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1990, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1990, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:19 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
FLZ018-062215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 415 PM EDT WED JUN 6 1990 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO THE FORT MYERS AREA AND WILL BE MOVING INTO CHARLOTTE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS... HAIL.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND TEMPORARY FLOODING OF FLOOD PRONE AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. PEOPLE NEAR THE THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SELTER. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR BEFORE THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OFF THE COASST WITH IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS PRODUCING STRONG SHIFING WINDS AND ROUGH CONFUSED SEAS.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:36 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
FLZ018-062215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 415 PM EDT WED JUN 6 1990 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO THE FORT MYERS AREA AND WILL BE MOVING INTO CHARLOTTE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS... HAIL.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND TEMPORARY FLOODING OF FLOOD PRONE AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. PEOPLE NEAR THE THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SELTER. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR BEFORE THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OFF THE COA]ST WITH IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS PRODUCING STRONG SHIFING WINDS AND ROUGH CONFUSED SEAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 55 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.