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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

March 31, 1995Pasco County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1995, 3:29 PM EST for Pasco County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 31, 1995, 3:29 PM EST (20:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 1995, 4:30 PM EST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Pasco County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 553 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 2:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHernando37 min
Mar 31, 3:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHernando53 min
Mar 31, 4:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPasco63 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.