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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT for Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sarasota County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Aug 17, 3:13 PM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 3:13 PM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL 315 PM EDT SAT AUG 17 1996 CONVECTION/WEST COAST SEA BRZ ALG COASTAL COUNTIES SHUD MOV INLAND NORTH OF SRQ...ALTHOUGH NOT MOVG MUCH NOW. SOUTH OF SRG...CONVERGENCE ZONE SHOULD REMAIN NEAR THE COAST OWING TO STRONGER ELY WND. EXPECT EAST COAST SEA BRZ TO COLLIDE WITH WCSB TO ENHANCE RW/TRW OVR THE INTERIOR COUNTIES LATER THIS AFTN. EXPECT STG GUSTY WINDS OWING TO MID LVL DRYING. ACTIVITY ALSO DVLPG OVR SRN FL SOUTH/SW OF LEE COUNTY ASSOCD WITH TROPICAL WV AXIS. CONCUR WITH NGM/AVN SOLNS WITH DVLPG HIGH PRESSURE OVR ERN US/FL WITH CORRESPONDING ELY SFC FLOW DRG THE PD. FWC APPEARS TOO LOW WITH POPS AS ELY WND SHUD COMBINE lWITH WCSB/ECSB TO PRODUCE SCT/NUMEROUS RW/TRW SUN AFTN. FOG TONIGHT OVR FA WOULD BE CONTINGENT ON LOCATION OF MAX RAIN AND SFC WND. 11
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 6:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Polk | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hardee | 44 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.