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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 10, 1995Hillsborough County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1995, 6:17 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1995, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Hillsborough County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2222 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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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.

NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 10, 2:54 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:54 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL
253 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995

CONVECTION JUST BEGINNING TO POP ACROSS NRN ZONES AND THE EAST COAST
SEA BREEZE. EXPECT ADDITIONAL RAPID DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVG
WITH EVENTUAL SEA BREEZE COLLISION JUST INLAND OF THE COASTAL COUNTIES.
OUTFLOW FROM LAST NITES ACTIVITY ACROSS SE GA/NERN FL MAY BE CAPPING
CENTRAL FL NOW. KTBW & KTLH 88DS WERE SHOWING ANAMALOUS PROPAGATION
ACROSS THE TAMPA BAY AREA THIS AFTERNOON...OBVIOUSLY ATMOSPHERE IS
MORE STABLE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. VORT MAX OFF NE FL COAST THAT IS
ROTATING AROUND THE LOW EAST OF THE BAHAMAS SHOULD ASSIST IN KICKING OFF
ACTIVITY OVER CENTRAL AREAS THIS EVENING. THIS SAID...WILL GO 40% IN @1
AND @3 WITH 30% IN FMY FOR POPS THIS EVENING.

MODELS SHOW BIG CHANGES HEADING THIS WAY NEXT 48HRS. WE MAY ACTUALLY
BE TALKING ABOUT FRONTAL PASSAGE LATE MONDAY! AT THIS TIME WILL GO
WITH A SCENARIO OF FRONT APPROACHING NRN PORTIONS OF FA LATE MONDAY.
SUNDAY SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO TODAY WITH SCATTERED AFT/EVG TSTMS DRIVEN
MAINLY BY SEA BREEZE FORCING. WITH FRONT APPROACHING CEDAR KEY LATE
LATE MONDAY AND SW FLOW DEVELOPING ACROSS THE REGION SUN NITE/MONDAY
WILL DROP MENTION OF POP TIMING FOR ALL BUT SW FL ON MONDAY. WILL BE
CLOSE TO FWC TEMPS SUNDAY AS IT SHOULD BE ONE LAST HOT DAY...BUT GO
COOLER ON MONDAY WITH MORE CLOUDS AND THE WEST/SOUTHWEST FLOW. THANKS
FOR COORDINATION MLB.

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

TPA BT 75/95/77/90 994425

NASH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPolk63 min
Jun 10, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPasco41 min
Jun 10, 6:09 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPolk51 min
Jun 10, 6:28 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWHillsborough47 min
Jun 10, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWManatee60 min
Jun 10, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPinellas60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.