Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 5:25 PM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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 25, 2000, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pinellas County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:38 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | St Petersburg, FL | A Skywarn Spotter reported dime sized hail in St. Petersburg. |
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 40 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
- 205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTBW 252126 SVRTBW FLC103-252200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 525 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PINELLAS COUNTY. * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 10 MILES EAST OF CLEARWATER...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... SAFETY HARBOR. HIGHPOINT. CLEARWATER. BELLEAIR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER PINELLAS PARK. THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING NORTHWEST. 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. $$ LAT...LON 2792 8259 2808 8267 2798 8292 2779 8280 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 25, 1:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 100 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 CURRENTLY: OFF TO A BIT SLOWER START WITH CONVECTION TODAY...AS ONE WOULD EXPECT DURING THE TRANSITION TO DEEP SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW. STILL SHOULD HAVE AN ACTIVE AFTERNOON IN THE AREA...JUST LATER THAN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. FORECAST: MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM IS EXTENT OF DRY AIR THAT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA FROM THE EAST ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. MODELS ARE SHOWING THEIR USUAL BIASES WITH NGM PROBABLY TOO DRY AND AVN PROBABLY TOO MOIST. INTERESTINGLY...POPS ON MACHINE GUIDANCE FOR MON AT TAMPA WENT UP ABOUT 10 PERCENT ON BOTH FWC AND FAN. WILL PLAY THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AND ESSENTIALLY GO CLIMO...ALTHOUGH THAT MAY WIND UP BEING A BIT TOO HIGH IF DRY AIR WORKS IN MORE STRONGLY THAN ANTICIPATED. WILL GO A BIT LOWER INLAND AND NORTH. TEMPS A TAD WARMER THE NEXT TWO DAYS WITH SEABREEZE BEING HELD NEAR THE COAST THROUGH A GOOD PART OF THE AFTERNOON. EXTENDED: MRF SHOWS RIDGE BEING TEMPORARILY SUPPRESSED TO THE SOUTHERN FA AGAIN BY LATE WEEK AS A SHORTWAVE DROPS INTO THE SOUTHEAST. WILL WORD FOR MORE OF A CHANCE OF MORNING ACTIpVITY IN THE NORTH BY FRIDAY. PRELIM NUMBERS: TPA 73/92/74/92 5555 FMY 72/92/73/92 4545 .TBW...NONE. ALSHEIMER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 5:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 22 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.