Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1997, 3:33 PM EDT for Levy County, Florida. It was in force for 57 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 22, 1997, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1997, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Levy County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
733 WUUS1 KTBW 221935 RRA SVRTBW FLC075-222030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 333 PM EDT THU MAY 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION(S) IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA ...LEVY COUNTY AT 330 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 23 MILES WEST OF BRONSON OR 15 MILES WEST OF OTTER CREEK MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OTTER CREEK AROUND 419 PM EDT BY DEFINITION...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AND/OR DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. IF THIS STORM APPROACHES YOU AREA...GO INDOORS AND STAY THERE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
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 22, 3:07 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:07 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL 307 PM EDT THU MAY 22 1997 FRONT MAY BE ABOUT STATIONARY ALONG A CRYSTAL RIVER TO CAPE CANAVERAL LINE THIS EARLY AFTN. WEAK 5H VORT IMPULSE...AMPLE HEATING ASSOCIATED WITH FRONT GENERATING SCTD TSTMS N CNTRL FA SEWD THRU E CNTRL PNSULA. SUSPECT TSTMS WILL CONT TO BECOME QUITE WIDESPREAD OVER INTERIOR CNTRL PNSULA...BUT QUESTION IS HOW MUCH OF AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MAY PROPAGATE FROM THIS CONVECTION TO FIRE NEW TSTMS INTO S CNTRL PNSULA BEFORE A DIURNAL DEMISE. SO WOULD FAVOR DIMINISHED EVE POPS TO THE GULF COAST WITH LITTLE OR NOTHING FOR MANATEE...SARASOTA...CHARLOTTE AND LEE. VARIABLE CLOUDINESS TNGT WITH RAIN MOISTED NELY FLO BRIDGING THRU FNT. FOR FRI WITH CONTD RIDING ALFT...AND NO 5H VORT IMPULSES...WOULD XPT ONLY WIDELY SCTD DIURNAL TSTMS OVER THE PNSULA...POTENTIALLY FAVORING THE GULF COAST ZONES WITH INTERACTION OF OLD FRONT OR OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WITH COASTAL SEA BREEZES. MOS TEMPS SEEM OK FOR FRI BUT POPS SEEM HI. DMR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 12:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-504-505-222000- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1210 PM EDT THU MAY 22 1997 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER THE INLAND PENINSULA THIS AFTERNOON... THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OR A WEAK COOL FRONT PUSHING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD INTO THE CENTRAL PENINSLA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE MOST CONCENTRATED AND POTENTIALLY THE STRONGEST OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL AND EVENTUALLY EAST CENTRAL PENINSULA...PRIMARILY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BROOKSVILLE TO LAKELAND TO SEBRING TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THE TAMPA AREA TO ARCADIA...WITH THE LEAST THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FOR THE COASTAL AREAS FROM ST PETERSBURG SOUTHWARD THROUGH SARASOTA AND FORT MYERS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP BETWEEN INVERNESS AND ORLANDO DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON THEN SPREAD SOUTHEASTWARD DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. STRONGER INLAND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERATE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND LOCALIZED DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. DMR
Special weather statement, May 22, 12:11 PM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-504-505-222000- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA RUSKIN FL 1210 PM EDT THU MAY 22 1997 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER THE INLAND PENINSULA THIS AFTERNOON... THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OR A WEAK COOL FRONT PUSHING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD INTO THE CENTRAL PENINSLA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE MOST CONCENTRATED AND POTENTIALLY THE STRONGEST OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL AND EVENTUALLY EAST CENTRAL PENINSULA...PRIMARILY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BROOKSVILLE TO LAKELAND TO SEBRING TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THE TAMPA AREA TO ARCADIA...WITH THE LEAST THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FOR THE COASTAL AREAS FROM ST PETERSBURG SOUTHWARD THROUGH SARASOTA AND FORT MYERS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP BETWEEN INVERNESS AND ORLANDO DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON THEN SPREAD SOUTHEASTWARD DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. STRONGER INLAND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERATE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND LOCALIZED DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. DMR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 64 min |
| May 22, 5:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 49 min |
| May 22, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands | 60 min |
| May 22, 6:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.