Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Issued

Oct 8, 1995, 4:23 AM EDT (08:23 UTC)

Expired

Oct 8, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT

In force

12 hr

Issued by

NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Area

Whole counties

County Lee County, FL

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KTBW 080835 COR
FFWTBW
FLC071-082030-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING... CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL
423 AM EDT SUN OCT 8 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA

   ...SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY

DUE IN PART TO COPIUS RAINFALL AMOUNTS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED OVER
SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS...FLOODING CONTINUES
TO INUNDATE SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING.

RESIDENTS IN THE MANNAH CHRISTIAN TRAILER PARK IN BONITA SPRINGS
WERE EVACUATED DUE TO FLOODING. AT LEAST 1200 LEE COUNTY RESIDENTS
HAVE BEEN EVAUCUATED THUS FAR DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS.

A SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED ALONG THE EAST FLORIDA
COAST WILL MOVE WESTWARD ACROSS THE FLORIDA PENINSULA AND PRODUCE
ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THIS ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL WILL HELP TO MAINTAIN THE ALREADY WIDESPREAD FLOODING
PROBLEM OVER SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY.

MOST DEATHS IN FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.

NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 8, 3:30 AM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL
330 AM EDT SUN OCT 08 1995

ETA/AVU/AVC CONSISTENT IN MOVG SFC N-S ORIENTED TROF/TROPICAL WV WWD
ACRS FL AND INTO THE ERN GULF IN 48HRS. NGM DEVIATES BY KEEPING SFC
FEATURE OVR FL PENIN DRG PD. RW ALREADY MOVG ACRS ERN FL LIKELY ASSOCD
WITH THIS SFC TROF AND UPR POS VORT ADV AND SEE NO REASON FOR TROF TO
REMAIN QUASI-STNRY. THUS HAVE LESS FAITH IN NGM SOLN. WL FCST HIGHEST
POPS OVR INTERIOR AND SRN ZNS TODAY DUE TO PROXIMITY OF TROF/HIGHEST PW.
ETA/AVN SOLNS MOV MUCH OF UPR FORCING WWD INTO THE ERN GULF AFT 24HRS HWR
MODELS KEEP PW VALUES HIGH DRG PD AND WL THEREFORE NOT LOWER POPS LATER IN
THE PD AS MUCH AS FWC DOES. TEMPS WL LIKELY RMN IN THE UPR 80S/NEAR 90
AS MAX WITH LWR/MID 70S AS MIN. CONSIDERING MODEL SOLN SFC TROF PSNS
AND MOMENTUM THAT WL MIX DOWN EACH DAY...SFC WNDS WL LIKELY BE E/NE
TDA AND SE MON. FLOOD POTENTIAL APPEARS LIKELY LATER TDA OVR FA DEPENDING
UPON HOW MUCH RAIN FALLS UPSTREAM AND WL DEFER DECISION TO NXT SHIFT.
THANKS MIA/MLB FOR COORD.

@1 LEVY CITRUS SUMTER HERNANDO
@2 PASCO PINELLAS HILLSBOROUGH MANATEE SARASOTA
@3 CHARLOTTE LEE
@4 POLK HARDEE DESOTO HIGHLANDS

TPA TT 88/75 88/75 88 116565

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