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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 24, 1996Sarasota County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1996, 1:28 PM EDT for Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 47 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 24, 1996, 1:28 PM EDT (17:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Sarasota County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 256 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1520 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
1520 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWManatee44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.