Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 1995, 3:15 AM EST for Hillsborough County, Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 1995, 3:15 AM EST (08:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 1995, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hillsborough County, FL, Pinellas County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTBW 140817 RRA SVRTBW FLC057-103-140900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 315 AM EST SAT JAN 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EST FOR PEOPLE...S... IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY...PINELLAS COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS ALONG THE FLORIDA WEST COAST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY RADAR OVER PINELLAS COUNTY NEAR ST PETERSBURG. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTH EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORM OVER THE CITY OF TAMPA WITHIN THE HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR TH E WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
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 13, 11:08 PM EST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-504-505-141010- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1108 PM EST FRI JAN 13 1995 ...WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK... ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY... A STRONG STORM STORM SYSTEM CURRENTLY OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LATE FRIDAY EVENING HAS RESULTED IN THE FORMATION OF A SQUALL LINE OVER THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO. THIS LINE WAS SLOWLY MOVING EASTWARD...AND WILL REACH THE FLOIDA WEST COAST SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT...AND AFFECT THE REMAINDER OF WEST AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA OVERNIGHT AND INTO SATURDAY MORNING. CONDITIONS ARE PRIME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER AS THE LINE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. AS A RESULT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER FROM ROUGHLY FORT MYERS NORTHWARD. STRONG WINDS IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL RESULT IN SOME THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO...ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BRING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND RESULT IN SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. ADDITIONAL SQUALL LINES WILL DEVELOP SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT AND REPEATEDLY AFFECT THE AREA WITH MORE CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ALSO INCREASE THE CHANCES FOR FLOODING AS WELL. PERSONS IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD CONTINUE TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF ADVERSE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN RUSKIN. NASH
Special weather statement, Jan 13, 11:10 PM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-504-505-141010- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1108 PM EST FRI JAN 13 1995 ...WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK... ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY... A STRONG STORM STORM SYSTEM CURRENTLY OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LATE FRIDAY EVENING HAS RESULTED IN THE FORMATION OF A SQUALL LINE OVER THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO. THIS LINE WAS SLOWLY MOVING EASTWARD...AND WILL REACH THE FLOIDA WEST COAST SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT...AND AFFECT THE REMAINDER OF WEST AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA OVERNIGHT AND INTO SATURDAY MORNING. CONDITIONS ARE PRIME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER AS THE LINE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. AS A RESULT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER FROM ROUGHLY FORT MYERS NORTHWARD. STRONG WINDS IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL RESULT IN SOME THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO...ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BRING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND RESULT IN SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. ADDITIONAL SQUALL LINES WILL DEVELOP SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT AND REPEATEDLY AFFECT THE AREA WITH MORE CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ALSO INCREASE THE CHANCES FOR FLOODING AS WELL. PERSONS IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD CONTINUE TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF ADVERSE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN RUSKIN. NASH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 35 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.