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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

December 10, 1992Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 10, 1992, 10:06 AM EST for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 10, 1992, 10:06 AM EST (15:06 UTC)
Expired: Dec 10, 1992, 11:15 AM EST
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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, Dec 10, 4:37 AM EST, 5 hours 29 minutes before

FLZ006-008>021-101040-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
435 AM EDT THU DEC 10 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LEVY COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL
   WATERS UNTIL 600 AM EST...

A 75 MILES WIDE AREA OF RAIN... WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
... A FEW CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG
GUSTY WINDS EXTENDED FROM CRYSTAL RIVER NORTH INTO APALACHEE BAY... AND
SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF TO BETWEEN 110 AND 150 MILES OFFSHORE OF SARASOTA.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

RESIDENTS AND MARINERS ALONG THE WEST COAST SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR
PERIODS OF VER|Y HEAVY RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTNING... ROUGH SHIFTING SEAS
... GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE WATERSPOUTS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO
THE COASTAL WATERS AND ON SHORE.

Local storm report, Dec 10, 7:21 AM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 10, 8:19 AM EST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 10, 5:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Citrus, Hernando	2 hr
Dec 10, 5:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pasco	2 hr
Dec 10, 6:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Manatee	66 min
Dec 10, 6:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Pinellas	66 min
Dec 10, 7:09 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hillsborough	21 min
Dec 10, 9:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Highlands	119 min

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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.