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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 1, 1990Charlotte County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1990, 3:25 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Florida. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1990, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1990, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Charlotte 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1990-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1990-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSarasota51 min
Jul 1, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough, Polk43 min
Jul 1, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSarasota43 min
Jul 1, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWLee69 min
Jul 1, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSumter41 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.