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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2000, 2:33 PM EDT for Highlands County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 24, 2000, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Highlands County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Placid, FL | Thunderstorm winds ripped off large segments of a dairy farm roof and damaged several smaller out buildings on Southwest Ruck's Dairy Road near State Road 70, six miles southeast of Lake Placid. |
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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 241833 SVRTBW FLC055-241900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 233 PM EDT MON JUL 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HIGHLANDS COUNTY. * UNTIL 300 PM EDT. * AT 233 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKE PLACID...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... ARCHBOLD BY 235 PM EDT. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL... TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARPE EXPECTED. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. $$ LAT...LON 2719 8156 2703 8150 2727 8106 2755 8130 09 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 Jul 24, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 230 PM EDT MON JUL 24 2000 FOCUS REMAINS ON TODAYS WEATHER. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS PUSHED AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAIN A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH WHICH NOW STRETCHES FROM LONGBOAT KEY TO BRADENTON. STRONG U/L DIVERGENCE REMAINS OVER WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA ALONG WITH PW AROUND 2 INCHES. OUTFLOW ALSO EXTENDS FROM CRYSTAL RIVER TO ABOUT 75 MILES WEST OF CLEARWATER BEACH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THIS WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR HEAVY RAIN AND WILL LIKELY INCREASE CONVECTION IN THE TAMPA BAY AREA BY LATE AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD END AROUND MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE REGION. FORECAST...LITTLE CHANGE ON TUESDAY. STRONG U/L DIVERGENCE...AVN ACTUALLY SHOWS IT STRONGER THAN TODAY...WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION WITH PW AGAIN AROUND 2 INCHES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP LATE TONIGHT ALONG THE COAST AND WILL SPREAD SLOWLY INLAND. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WILL AGAIN BE THE MAIN THREAT. WEDNESDAY APPEARS TO BE A TRANSITION DAY AS DEEP SOUTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES OVER THE NORTHERN FA...HOWEVER SURFACE RIDGE WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTH AND BACK L/L FLOW TO THE EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FA. TRANSITION PATTERNS ARE TOUGH TO FORECAST...BUT THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE LIGHT NIGHT/MORNING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF TAMPA... AND LATE AFTEROON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FA. EXTENDED...THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...RIDGE AXIS WILL LIFT NORTH OF THE FA WITH EASTERLY FLOW TAKING HOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN QUITE AWHILE. SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR WILL ADVECT OVER THE REGION. SCATTERED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE. TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN TO NORMALS WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE LOW TO MID 70S AND HIGHS NEAR 90 TO LOWER 90S. MARINE...WINDS WILL REMAIN SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE NORTHERN WATERS...BUT WILL BACK EAST TO SOUTHEAST OVER THE SOUTHERN WATERS ON WEDNESDAY AS THE SURFACE RIDGE LIFTS NORTH OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN GULF. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS TPA TT 074/086 073/089 5845 FMY TT 074/089 074/092 3635 .TBW...NONE. OGLESBY
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.