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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 27, 2000Hillsborough County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 8:07 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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 27, 2000, 8:07 PM EDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Hillsborough County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 23 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1825 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1324 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

423 
WUUS52 KTBW 280020
SVRTBW
FLC057-280030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
807 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT.

* AT 807 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...6 MILES
  NORTH OF TEMPLE TERRACE.  THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT...
  HILLSBOROUGH RIVER STATE PARK.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER...AND
HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.

$$

LAT...LON 2818 8230 2815 8243 2803 8239 2807 8222

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHillsborough41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.