Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2000, 10:05 AM EDT for Manatee County, Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2000, 10:05 AM EDT (14:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2000, 10:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Manatee County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 2287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
997 WUUS52 KTBW 151405 SVRTBW FLC081-115-151455- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RUSKIN FL 1005 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN MANATEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA SARASOTA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 1055 AM EDT * AT 1003 AM...A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR NEAR BRADENTON EXTENDING SOUTH TO NEAR SARASOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH AND/OR LARGE HAIL. MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY BUILDING... MOBILE HOMES ARE NOT SAFE.
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 Jul 15, 9:33 AM EDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 9:33 AM EDT, 32 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 933 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 2000 VORT LOBE/SHEAR AXIS OFFSHORE THE BIG BEND MOVING SEWD ALONG WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE (PWS 2 AND LI -6) AND LEFT OVER BOUNDARIES IS RESULTING IN A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY AFFECTING MUCH OF PINELLAS...HILLSBOROUGH...POLK AND MANATEE COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING. AS VORT LOBE/SHEAR AXIS CONTINUES TO DROP SEWD TODAY SHOULD CONTINUE TO SEE ADDITIONAL CONVECTION FIRE OFF OVER THE FA THE REMAINDER OF TODAY...SO ONGOING HIGH POP FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. AS FOR THE MORNING UPDATE PLAN TO DO SOME SUBTLE RE- WORDING TO SKY CONDITIONS TO FIT ONGOING AND EXPECTED WEATHER AND WILL ADD MENTION OF GUSTY WINDS NEAR TSTMS AS WIND GUSTS UP TO 32 KNOTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN OBSERVED. WILL ALSO MONITOR TEMP TRENDS AS WELL AND WILL LIKELY LOWER SOME ACROSS THE BOARD DUE TO EXPECTED CLOUD COVER AND PRECIP. MARINE...WILL ADD MENTION OF HIGHER WIND AND SEAS NEAR THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE AFTERNOON PERIOD...OTHERWISE CURRENT C-MAN AND OFFSHORE BUOYS SUPPORTING ONGOING FORECAST. NO HIGHLIGHTS NEEDED. .TBW...NONE. MCMICHAEL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-151500- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 530 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 2000 ...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY FROM TAMPA BAY SOUTHWARD TODAY... DEEP ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE WILL BE IN PLACE MAINLY FROM THE TAMPA BAY AREA SOUTHWARD TODAY. THEREFORE...THE BEST CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM ROUGHLY PASCO COUNTY SOUTHWARD...AND BECOME MORE SCATTERED FROM HERNANDO AND SUMTER COUNTIES NORTHWARD TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE GENERALLY TOWARD THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS AS SOON AS YOU SEE LIGHTNING OR HEAR THUNDER. REMEMBER...ANY THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MORALES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 11:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.