Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 2:50 PM EDT for Hardee County, Florida. It was in force for 25 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 22, 2000, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardee County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Zolfo Spgs, FL | The Peace River Electric Company reported that thunderstorm winds downed several power lines and large trees over rural southwest Hardee county. |
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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
450 WUUS52 KTBW 221852 SVRTBW FLC049-221915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 250 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HARDEE COUNTY. * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 250 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 14 MILES SOUTH OF WAUCHULA... MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... ZOLFO SPRINGS. FORT GREEN. WAUCHULA. 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 22, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 150 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 CURRENTLY: IL-DEFINED SFC RIDGE AXIS OVER SCENT FL. 88D CONTINUES TO SHOW DEVELOPING SHWS/TSTMS OVER LEVY...BUILDING SOUTH ALONG SEA BREEZE. HEAVIER/SLOWER MOVING RAINFALL OVER CHARLOTTE...MAINLY OVER CHARLOTTE HARBOR...ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE LINE. 88D ESTIMATES 3+ INCHES/HR WITH THIS AREA AS IT DRIFTS NORTH. FCST: NOT A VERY STRAIGHT FORWARD FORECAST DUE TO VERY WEAK STEERING FLOW AND LACK OF DEFINITIVE SFC RIDGE AXIS. IN GENERAL... MODELS INDICATE WEAK SFC RIDGE OVER SCENT FL TONIGHT THROUGH FRI... THEN OVER THE CENT FL SAT. UPPER LEVEL VORT AXIS AND ASSOCIATED SFC TROF MOVE TOWARD N FL TONIGHT AND FRI...STALLING OVER N FL SAT. WITH THIS FEATURE...MODELS TRY TO PRODUCE RAINFALL OVER THE N FA ALL NIGHT TONIGHT...WHICH SEEMS OVER DONE...BUT MAY WORD TONIGHTS POPS WITH NO TIMING. NORMALLY...WITH A SFC RIDGE OVER THE S FA...WOULD EXPECT FOCUS OF TSTMS WELL INLAND BY AFTN. HOWEVER...LOW LEVEL FLOW PRETTY WEAK...WHICH WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR ACITIVITY TO FOCUS IN ANY ONE SPOT. THUS...WILL LIKELY TAYLOR POPS MORE N-S...RATHER THAN COAST VS INLAND. THINK HIGHEST COVERAGE/POPS WILL BE N OF TPA IN VCNTY OF UPPER/SFC TROF. WILL GO LIKELY POPS N FA FRI/SAT...AND AT LEAST GOOD CHC FOR REST OF FA THROUGH SAT. AGAIN...STORMS WILL BE EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY...WHICH WILL ALLOW THE POSSIBILITY TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMTS. WILL KEEP THIS OUT OF FCST FOR NOW... BUT MAY NEED MENTION BY FRI. FWC/FAN TEMPS SIMILAR AND REASONABLE. EXTENDED: MRF CONTINUES TO SHOW SFC RIDGE MOVING N OVER N FA/FL SUN THROUGH TUE. THIS SHOULD FAVOR BEST COVERAGE BACK TOWARD WEST COAST...BUT WILL KEEP GENERAL WORDING FOR NOW. MARINE: WINDS AND SEAS BELOW ANY HIGHLIGHTS THROUGH THE EARLY NEXT WEEK. THANKS MLB FOR COORD CALL. PRELIM S: TPA TT 074/090 075/090 075 3535 FMY TT 072/091 073/091 074 3535= .TBW...NONE. MORALES
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.