Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2000, 5:57 PM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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 26, 2000, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 6:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Wales, FL | Florida Power Electric Company officials reported that thunderstorms winds downed several large trees and power lines in Lake Wales of eastern Polk 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 262157 SVRTBW FLC105-262300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 557 PM EDT WED JUL 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL POLK COUNTY. * UNTIL 700 PM EDT. * AT 557 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE WALES...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... FROSTPROOF. 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. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES OR TELEPHONES. $$ LAT...LON 2792 8181 2770 8168 2776 8129 2801 8144) 25 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 26, 2:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 210 PM EDT WED JUL 26 2000 CURRENTLY: SHOWERS/TSTMS BEGINNING TO POP ALONG THE WEST COAST SEABRZ BOUNDARY FROM PINELLAS NORTH. ALSO GETTING SOME INDICATION THAT SHOWERS WANT TO DEVELOP OVER THE INTERIOR. VIS SAT LOOP SHOWS GENERALLY SSE TO NNW CLOUD STREETS...INDICATIVE OF WEAK SSE STEERING FLOW...WITH BROAD SFC RIDGE AXIS BETWEEN TPA AND VEN. DISC: FCST CONTINUES TO BE TRICKY WITH DECIDING PLACEMENT OF BEST POPS. WEAK UPPER RIDGE GENERALLY REMAINS OVER THE AREA THROUGH FRI...WITH SFC RIDGE AXIS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE CENT AND NCENT FA. YESTERDAY IT LOOKED LIKE A PROGRESSION TOWARD MORE EASTERLY FLOW BY THURSDAY...BUT LATEST RUNS SHOW ONLY VERY WEAK EASTERLY BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW...WITH AFTN WEST COAST SEABRZS. THINK THURS WILL BE SIMILAR TO TODAY WITH CONVECTION FIRING BY EARLY AFTN NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE SFC RIDGE AXIS ALONG THE WEST COAST SEABRZ...AND LATER AFTN STORMS OVER THE INTERIOR. SEEMS EASTERLY STEERING FLOW TOO WEAK TO FAVOR COASTAL FOR THURS. BY FRI...NGM/FWC SFC WINDS INDICATE SLIGHTLY STRONGER EASTERLY FLOW...WHICH SHOULD FAVOR BEST COVERAGE FOR LATER AFTN/EVENING OVER WEST COAST COUNTIES...BUT CONFIDENCE LOW. WILL KEEP AFTN POPS AROUND 40% THROUGH FRI FOR INTERIOR AND COASTAL ...EXCEPT MAYBE 50% S FA WHERE SLIGHTLY HIGHER MOISTURE RESIDES. EXTENDED: SEE VERY LITTLE CHANGE THROUGH MON. WEAK SFC RIDGE AXIS REMAINS OVER THE NCENT FA...WITH WEAK EASTERLY SFC GRADIENT AND AFTN SEABRZ. FMR KEEPS POPS SLGTLY BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD... WHICH SEEMS OK GIVEN PRESENCE OF DEEP (ALTHO WEAK) RIDGE. WILL IGNORE TROPICAL LOOKING FEATURE IN MRF...WHICH APPROACHES S FL PENIN BY LATE MON. MARINE: NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED THROUGH PERIOD AS WEAK EASTERLY FLOW CONTINUES WITH AFTN ONSHORE FLOW NEAR THE COAST. PRECIP SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE NOCTURNAL...FAVORING NIGHT AND MORNING. THANKS FOR COORD MLB. PRELIM #S: TPA BB 073/089 073/090 074 2434 FMY TB 072/090 073/091 073 3534 .TBW...NONE. MORALES
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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.