Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 5:23 PM EDT for Manatee County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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 16, 2000, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Manatee County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Bradenton, FL | The public reported dime sized hail through WTSP-TV (CBS) of Tampa along Interstate 75. |
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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
916 WUUS52 KTBW 162123 SVRTBW FLC081-162200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 523 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN MANATEE COUNTY. * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 516 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...10 MILES EAST OF PALMETTO...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... SAMOSET. ELLENTON. PALMETTO. PARRISH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER...AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL... TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. $$ NNNN
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 Jun 16, 1:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 1:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 140 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000 THERE IS PRETTY GOOD COVERAGE INLAND ALREADY THIS AFTERNOON AS THE EAST COAST SEABREEZE RACES INLAND. THE WEST COAST SEABREEZE IS STRUGGLING A LITTLE SO FAR...SO MY GUESS IS WE WILL SEE PRETTY GOOD FLAIR UPS CLOSE TO THE COAST IN A COUPLE HOURS...STARTING IN THE SOUTH AND DEVELOPING NORTH. LOCAL STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A FEW OF THESE STORMS TO BE STRONG. I ADMIT THE MODELS WERE RIGHT YESTERDAY...THE UPPER LOW NEAR THE YUCATAN MOVED NORTH AND THE UPPER LOW IN THE NORTHWEST GULF BECAME THE DOMINANT FEATURE. CONVECTION OVER THE EASTERN GULF SHOULD LESSEN SOME AS DEVELOPMENT NOW WILL FAVOR THE CENTRAL GULF. MODELS HAVE THE UPPER LOW IN THE NORTHWEST GULF OPENING UP AND BECOMING ENGULFED IN THE LONG-WAVE TROUGH OVER THE PLAINS. FOR US THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE WILL BUILD WESTWARD...SURFACE PRESSURES AND LOW LEVEL HEIGHTS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE AS UPWARD LIFT DECREASES. WE WILL STAY ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE RIDGE THROUGH THE MEDIUM RANGE...KEEPING US IN DEEP EASTERLY FLOW. THERE WILL BE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND MOISTURE TO DEVELOP PM THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE COASTS. I WILL GO WITH FAN GUIDANCE...EXCEPT TRENDING BACK JUST A LITTLE ON POPS LATER IN THE FORECAST. MARINE...SURFACE PRESSURE WILL INCREASE AND WINDS WILL BE LIGHTER IN THE NORTH. I WILL BREAK OUT THE SOUTHERN LEG OF THE FORECAST FOR HIGHER WIND. WINDS TODAY HAVE CONSISTENTLY BEEN IN THE 10 TO 15 KT RANGE...AND THAT WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTH. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS TPA TB 072/092 073/093 073 3534 FMY TT 074/091 074/093 074 2535 .TBW...NONE. SOBIEN
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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.