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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

February 17, 1998Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 1998, 9:12 AM EST for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
Feb 17, 1998, 9:12 AM EST (14:12 UTC)
Expired
Feb 17, 1998, 10:00 AM EST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, FL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 17, 9:40 AM ESTThunderstorm WindPineland, FLThunderstorm winds downed several large trees at a Pine Island golf course along County Road 767.
Feb 17, 9:50 AM ESTHail 0.75Ft Myers, FLDime sized hail was reported at U.S. Highway 41 and Boyscout Road.

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 text

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

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 Feb 17, 1:44 AM EST, 7 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 1:44 AM EST, 7 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY-RUSKIN, FL
144 AM EST TUE FEB 17 1998

FAIRLY IMPRESSIVE SQUALL LINE NOW NOTED ON 88D AND SATL LOOPS EXTNDG
FROM THE BIG BEND AREA SWWD INTO THE ERN GLFMX. STRONG UPR LVL JET
STREAK...RICH THETA-E AIRMASS AND ADEQUATE INSTABILITY HELPING TO
MAINTAIN ONGOING CONVECTION ALONG PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH AXIS LOCATED
OVER THE ERN GLFMX. AS DVLPG SFC LOW NOW LOCATED OVER SWRN MS CONTS
MOVG N TODAY PRE-FRONTAL BNDRY AND TRAILING CDFNT FROM SFC LOW WILL
CONT TO SWING EWD. GIVEN CURRENT SPEED OF JET OVHD WOULD EXPECT TO
SEE BEST CHANCES FOR PRECIP AND ANY SVR WX ACRS THE FA THROUGH MID
MORNING NRN/CNTRL ZNS AND MID TO LATE MORNG ACRS MY SRN MOST ZONES
BEFORE ENTIRE AREA SHIFTS EWD WITH DRIER AIRMASS MOVG INTO THE CWA
AS FLOW BECOME WLY. WITH THIS THINKING...FEEL FFA (FLOOD WATCH CAN
BE DROPPED IN 5 AM PACKAGE. IN ADDITION...WITH LOW LVL FLOW BECOMING
WLY AND LIKELY TO DIMINISH SOME BY LATE MORNING WITH PASSAGE OF
CONVECTION...CAN ALSO PROBABLY GET AWAY WITH DROPPING THE WIND
ADVISORY AND CFW (COASTAL FLOOD WATCHS AND WARNINGS)AS WELL. AS FOR
WORDING OF FIRST PERIOD...WOULD SUGGEST LIKELY CAT POPS WITH MENTION
OF SOME POSSIBLE STRONG STORMS FOR EARLY THIS MORNING...THEN BECMG
PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A SLIGHT CHC OF SHOWERS FOR THE PM HRS AS MAIN
FRONT MOVES THROUGH.

TONIGHT CDFNT WILL CONT MOVG THRU THE SRN MOST PENINSULA WITH YET
ANOTHER WEAK TROUGH AXIS ROTATING THRU THE N-CNTRL PEN OVERNIGHT...
BUT LACK OF SUFFICIENT MSTR SHOULD PRECLUDE ANY FURTHER PRECIP. ON
WEDNESDAY SFC LOW NOW OVER MS WILL BE OVER THE OH VALLEY WITH UPR
TROUGH WELL TO THE NE WITH WEAK UPR RDG AND SFC HI BUILDING INTO
THE FA WHICH WILL RETURN SUNSHINE TO REGION. WITH ZONAL FLOW ALOFT
NO REAL CAA EXPECTED IN WAKE OF FRONT SO TEMPS WILL REMAIN NEAR
SEASONAL LVLS. FAN/FWC NUMBERS ARE ONCE AGAIN VERY CLOSE SO A BLEND
OF THE TWO LOOKS REASONABLE FOR THE ENTIRE FA.  THANKS FOR COORD
AND THOUGHTS MIA.

MCMICHAEL

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 17, 3:36 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWPinellas44 min
Feb 17, 3:58 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough47 min
Feb 17, 4:03 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWSarasota47 min
Feb 17, 4:35 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWManatee35 min
Feb 17, 4:51 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWSarasota29 min
Feb 17, 4:59 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWHardee, Polk46 min
Feb 17, 5:04 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWManatee36 min
Feb 17, 5:34 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHardee46 min
Feb 17, 6:02 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHighlands48 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.