Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 1:44 PM EDT for Citrus County, Hernando County, Sumter County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports 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 21, 1998, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1998, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Citrus County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Sumter County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 1:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Panasoffkee, FL | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and numerous branches and damaged the lanais of a couple of homes in rural, semi-wooded western Sumter county. |
| Jun 21, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville, FL | Thunderstorm wind downed several large trees along the U.S. Highway 41 corridor between U.S. Highway 98 and County Road 476. A home and a truck were damaged by wind toppled trees in Brooksville. |
| Jun 21, 2:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Inverness, FL | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees in the Heathwood Estates subdivision northwest of Inverness. |
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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Manatee | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 66 min |
| Jun 21, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.