Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 30, 1994, 2:28 PM EST for Manatee County, Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 1994, 2:28 PM EST (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 1994, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Manatee County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
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, Jan 30, 9:35 AM EST, 4 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jan 30, 1:35 PM EST, 53 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-504-505-301935- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 135 PM EST SUN JAN 30 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OFFSHORE OF FLORIDA WEST CENTRAL COAST... AT 130 PM EST... RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM THE EAST COAST NEAR DAYTONA BEACH SOUTHWEST SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE PENINSULA TO THE WEST COAST BETWEEN ST. PETERSBURG AND CRYSTAL RIVER THEN OUT OVER THE GULF FOR 140 MILES. THE HEAVIEST CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WAS OBSERVED OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO 10 MILES WEST OF CLEARWATER TO 80 MILES WEST OF VENICE. MARINERS AND RESIDENTS IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...ROUGH SEAS... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... AND POSSIBLE WATERSPOUTS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS WERE ALSO DETECTED OVER THE NORTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO AND APALACHEE BAY STRETCHING NORTHEAST TO GAINESVILLE.
Special weather statement, Jan 30, 1:45 PM EST, 43 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-504-505-301935- SPECIAL WEATHER AND MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 135 PM EST SUN JAN 30 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OFFSHORE OF FLORIDA WEST CENTRAL COAST... AT 130 PM EST... RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM THE EAST COAST NEAR DAYTONA BEACH SOUTHWEST SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE PENINSULA TO THE WEST COAST BETWEEN ST. PETERSBURG AND CRYSTAL RIVER THEN OUT OVER THE GULF FOR 140 MILES. THE HEAVIEST CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WAS OBSERVED OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO 10 MILES WEST OF CLEARWATER TO 80 MILES WEST OF VENICE. MARINERS AND RESIDENTS IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...ROUGH SEAS... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... AND POSSIBLE WATERSPOUTS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS WERE ALSO DETECTED OVER THE NORTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO AND APALACHEE BAY STRETCHING NORTHEAST TO GAINESVILLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 45 min |
| Jan 30, 4:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 24 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.