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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

January 2, 1996Charlotte County, Sarasota County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 1996, 7:47 PM EST for Charlotte County, Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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
Jan 2, 1996, 7:47 PM EST (00:47 UTC)
Expired
Jan 2, 1996, 8:30 PM EST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Charlotte County, FL, Sarasota County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 1996-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3081 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 1996-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3081 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
7.0

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The text

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

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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.