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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

November 8, 1995Hillsborough County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 1995, 2:55 AM EST for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 8, 1995, 2:55 AM EST (07:55 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 1995, 3:36 AM EST
In force
41 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 07:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 192 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 00:00Z on 1995-11-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 826 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
826 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1087 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 8, 2:55 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPolk50 min
Nov 8, 8:37 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWLee53 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.