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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2000, 3:35 PM EDT for Lee 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 26, 2000, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:50 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Cape Coral, FL | Quarter sized hail was reported in Cape Coral by WINK-TV (CBS) of Ft. Myers. |
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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 261939 SVRTBW FLC071-262000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 335 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN LEE COUNTY. * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 335 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT MYERS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. 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 2646 8195 2653 8176 2676 8179 2671 8204 RH 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 26, 1:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 133 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000 CURRENTLY: RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL FA IN UNSTABLE AIR. DIFFLUENT FLOW BETWEEN VORT MAXES TO OUR NORTH AND SOUTHWEST HELPING THINGS ALONG...TOO. WILL LIKELY SEE POCKETS OF HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES...ALTHOUGH CELLS ARE MOVING A LITTLE FASTER TODAY SO IT SHOULD NOT OCCUR IN TOO MANY PLACES. BEST THREAT FOR STRONG STORMS WILL BE IN THE NORTH AND IN THE SOUTH WHERE THE CAPE HAS NOT BEEN TAPPED YET. FORECAST: NO NEW MODELS TO LOOK AT...SO I WILL MAKE VERY LITTLE CHANGE TO ONGOING FORECAST. WILL GO WITH CLIMATOLOGICAL SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW REGIME THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION. DRY AIR TO OUR EAST GETTING SQUASHED RAPIDLY AND DONT EXPECT MUCH TO MAKE IT INTO THE FA. EXTENDED: MRF CONTINUES TO SHOW THE SURFACE RIDGE SLIDING TO THE SOUTHERN FA BY LATE IN THE WEEK...SO WILL GO WITH EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS CENTRAL AND NORTH IN THE EXTENDED. PRELIM NUMBERS: TPA 73/92/73/92 4545 FMY 73/92/73/92 4545 .TBW...NONE. ALSHEIMER
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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.