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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 26, 1996Pinellas County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1996, 6:57 PM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1996, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Pinellas County, FL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 26, 7:40 PM EDTThunderstorm WindSt Petersburg, FL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 255 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough, Manatee55 min
Jun 26, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough57 min
Jun 26, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough50 min
Jun 26, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.