Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1996, 6:08 PM EDT for Highlands County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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
- May 3, 1996, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Highlands County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1699 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 2:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL 202 PM EDT FRI MAY 03 1996 88D ALREADY SHOWING CONVEC BUILDING ALONG THE CST OVR S FA AND ALSO NEAR BRADENTON ALONG WK SEABRZ BNDRY. SAT LOOP REVEALS EAST CST SEABRZ AND OUTFLO BNDRYS MOVING WEST AND WILL ADD TO FUN LATER THIS AFTN AND EVENING AS THEY COLLIDE WITH WEST CST SEABRZ. TPA HAS GONE OVR TO BAY BRZ AND WILL GO OVR TO TRUE SEABRZ BEFORE 4PM. EXPECT A BUSY LATE AFTN AND EVENING WITH HEAVY RAINFALL PROBABLY THE BIGGEST PROBLEM... ESPECIALLY S OF TAP...SINCE VWP AND SNDG SHOWING NO FLOW UP TO 15KFT. SFC RDG FCST TO STAY OVER N FL. GENERALLY EASTERLY FLOW WITH AFTN WEST CST SEABRZS THROUGH THE PERIOD. WITH DEEP MOISTURE...MODERATE INSTABILITY AND SEABRZ FORCING....EXPECT CHC OF AFTN SHWS/TSTMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. POPS CONTINUE TO LOOK TOO LOW IN THE FWC...ESPECIALLY FOR FMY. SUGGEST CONTINUING TREND IN CURRENT FCST AND KEEP 30-40% S FA AND 30% CENTRAL FA. MOHRALES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 52 min |
| May 3, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 54 min |
| May 3, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hendry | 52 min |
| May 3, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 38 min |
| May 3, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee, Sarasota | 35 min |
| May 3, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 53 min |
| May 3, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 69 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.