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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 5:56 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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 27, 2000, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:02 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Ft Myers, FL | A Skywarn Spotter reported dime sized hail in 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, 9.9 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1248 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 272158 SVRTBW FLC071-272245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 556 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LEE COUNTY. * UNTIL 645 PM EDT. * AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT MYERS...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... ESTERO. FORT MYERS VILLAS. PAGE PARK-PINE MANOR. FORT MYERS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER...AND HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL CAUSE SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE...MAINLY TO TREES AND POWER LINES. POORLY ANCHORED ROOFS...MOBILE HOMES...AND SHEDS ARE ALSO AT RISK. $$ LAT...LON 2642 8188 2645 8168 2672 8170 2669 8195 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 27, 1:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 1:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 150 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2000 CURRENTLY: 88D AND VIS SAT LOOP SHOWING CONVECTION DEVELOPING OVER THE INTERIOR SCENT FA...NEAR THE LAKE. STILL RELATIVE LACK OF CU OVER THE WEST CENTRAL AND N FA...POSSIBLY DUE TO SOME SUBSIDENCE ON WEST SIDE OF WEAK INVERTED TROF OVER SE FL. REST OF TODAY: EXPECT TSTMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER THE INTERIOR SCENT AND SW FA...THEN SLOWLY EXPAND NORTHWARD. WITH SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR OVER THE N AND WESTERN CENT FA...COVERAGE SHOULD BE LESS THAN THE SOUTH AND INTERIOR. TSTMS WILL LIKELY LAST WELL INTO THE EVENING. DISC: MODELS NOT INTIALIZING INVERTED SFC TROF OVER SE FL VERY WELL...WHICH LOWERS MY CONFIDENCE IN THE MODEL FCSTS. HOWEVER...ETA DOES SEEM TO CAPTURE THIS INVERTED TROF IN A WEAK SENSE...AND MOVES IT WNW INTO THE GULF LATER TONIGHT. LOOKING AT LATEST SAT/RADAR LOOPS...THIS SEEMS REASONABLE. SFC RIDGE AXIS...CURRENTLY OVER THE NCENT FA...WILL REMAIN GENERALLY IN PLACE...POSSIBLY SLIDING A BIT FURTHER SOUTH INTO THE CENT FA BY SAT. WEAK EASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL ALLOW FOR AFTN WEST COAST SEABRZS THROUGH THE PERIOD. STEERING FLOW WILL CONTINUE VERY WEAK AND DIFFICULT TO FCST...BUT WILL LIKELY REMAIN WEAK SW THROUGH FRI...THEN MAYBE MORE ENE ON SAT. IN GENERAL ...MODELS SEEM TO KEEP HIGHEST MOISTURE/PWS OVER THE INTERIOR SCENT AND SW FA...WHICH IS WHERE HIGHEST POPS WILL REMAIN IN FCST. NOT PLANNING TO GO MUCH HIGHER THAN 30-40% POPS FOR WEST CENT AND N FA... AND WILL KEEP 40-50% POPS INTERIOR AND SW FA THROUGH THE PERIOD. FWC/FAN TEMPS REASONABLE. MARINE: NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. ENE FLOW OF LESS THAN 15 KTS...BECOMING ONSHORE NEAR THE COAST EACH AFTN. NOCTURNAL TIMING FOR CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE. PRELIM #S: TPA BB 073/091 073/091 073 2434 FMY TB 073/092 073/092 073 4545= .TBW...NONE. MORALES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.