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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

March 7, 1996Pinellas County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1996, 7:26 PM EST for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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
Mar 7, 1996, 7:26 PM EST (00:26 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1996, 8:15 PM EST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Pinellas County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 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 1996-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1074 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 1996-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 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
1074 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.6

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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
Mar 7, 8:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough, Manatee68 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.