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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min. 4 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, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hillsborough County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 3:05 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Tampa, FL | Dime sized hail was reported near the intersection of U.S. Highway 92 (Dale Mabry) and State Road 579 (Fletcher Avenue). |
| Jun 21, 3:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lutz, FL | Skywarn Spotters reported thunderstorm winds downed two large trees and snapped off the tops of a few others along U.S. Highway 92 (Dale Mabry) in Lutz. |
| Jun 21, 3:26 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Tampa, FL | Dime sized hail was reported near the intersection of State Road 580 (Busch Boulevard) and 48th Street by a Skywarn Spotter. |
| Jun 21, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Plant City, FL | Thunderstorm winds snapped a large 500-pound, 15 inch oak branch which fell atop and killed a 71 year old female while she walked along a sidewalk near the 6300 block of State Road 39 in Plant City. |
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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 23 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, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Sumter | 61 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.