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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 28, 1992Hillsborough County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1992, 10:15 AM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1992, 10:15 AM EDT (14:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1992, 10:45 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Hillsborough County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 1991 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTBW 281420
SVRTBW
FLC057-281445-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
1015 AM EDT SUN JUN 28 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...NORTHERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
INCLUDING THE BAY AND INLAND WATERS
 
 
A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS DETECTED BY RADAR IN NORTHERN
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AT 1015 AM. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER
HILLSBOROUGH BAY AND EAST INTO EAST TAMPA AND THE BRANDON AREA. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT NEAR 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MILES AN HOUR
...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES ARE NOT SAFE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVE TO A REINFORCED BUILDING. MARINE INTERESTS
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE WATERSPOUTS.

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

Local storm report, Jun 28, 9:52 AM EDT, 23 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL
950 AM EDT SUN JUN 28 1992

 805AM EDT   CHARLOTTE COUNTY PUNTA GORDA AT PUNTA GORDA ISLES
             TORNADO TOUCHDOWN..DAMAGE TO POOL ENCLOSURES...TREES
             DOWN..ROOF TILES REMOVED. LIMITED PATH...A 3 STREET
             AREA.
 815AM EDT   CHARLOTTE COUNTY  NORTHEAST OF PUNTA GORDA ACROSS
             PEACE RIVER IN DEEP CREEK COMMUNITY..HARBOR VIEW HOUSING
             DEVELOPMENT. PEOPLE AWAKEN BY STRONG WIND SOUND...DAMAGE TO
             POOL ENCLOSURES...TREES DOWN. HIGHLY LIKELY THE SAME STORM
             AS IN PUNTA GORDA.

             NO MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE REPORTED. REPORTS FROM VARIOUS
             RES$IDENTS TO CHARLOTTE COUNTY EOC.

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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.