Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1995, 3:08 PM EST for Manatee County, Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 1995, 3:08 PM EST (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1995, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 67 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, 8.1 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 172011 RRA SVRTBW FLC081-115-FLZ504-172115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 308 PM EST FRI MAR 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE...S... IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...MANATEE COUNTY...NORTHERN SARASOTA COUNTY AND FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...LONG BOAT KEY TO VENICE AT 305 PM EST...NATIONAL SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES WEST OF LONGBOAT KEY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ONSHORE BETWEEN SARASOTA AND BRADENTON BY 325 PM EST. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS OVERHEAD. WATERSPOUTS THAT MOVE ONSHORE CAN DO CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. SHORELINE RESIDENTS SHOULD BLE ON THE ALERT FOR THIS DANGER WHENEVER WATERSPOUTS ARE SIGHTED. ZALESKI
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, Mar 17, 11:00 AM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-504-505-180010- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1100 AM EST FRI MAR 17 1995 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND ALONG THE SEA BREEZE. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHERN ALABAMA. BECAUSE OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT AT THIS TIME APPEARS TO BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BUT SMALL TORNADOS CAN NOT BE RULLED OUT. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND REPORT ANY ADVERSE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER EVENT. SOBIEN
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 11:05 AM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-504-505-180010- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1100 AM EST FRI MAR 17 1995 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND ALONG THE SEA BREEZE. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHERN ALABAMA. BECAUSE OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT AT THIS TIME APPEARS TO BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BUT SMALL TORNADOS CAN NOT BE RULLED OUT. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND REPORT ANY ADVERSE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER EVENT. SOBIEN
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.