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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 29, 2000Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2000, 5:35 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 40 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 29, 2000, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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.

000 
WUUS52 KTBW 292136
SVRTBW
FLC071-292215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
535 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY.

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 535 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...OVER      
  LEE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 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.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE
INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES OR TELEPHONES.

$$

LAT...LON 2637 8178 2646 8166 2668 8176 26x56 8194

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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 29, 2:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 2:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
200 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

CURRENTLY: FAIRLY TYPICAL AFTERNOON UNDERWAY WITH SCATTERED
CONVECTION POPPING AND COLLAPSING QUICKLY ALONG THE WEST COAST SEA
BREEZE EARLY...WHILE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE AND LAKE BREEZE FROM
OKEECHOBEE MOVE SLOWLY WEST AND NORTHWESTWARD. A COLLISION WILL OCCUR
LATE AFTERNOON TO THE EAST OF INTERSTATE 75...WHERE THE BIGGEST
THREAT FOR ISOLATED PULSE SEVERE WILL OCCUR. VIL OF THE DAY LOOKS TO
BE IN THE LOW 60S AS 59 GENERATED 1/2 INCH HAIL AN HOUR AGO.

FORECAST: EVENING CONVECTION WILL GIVE WAY TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES
BY MIDNIGHT. MAY HAVE A FAIR AMOUNT OF CIRRUS OVERNIGHT AS UPPER
LEVEL WESTERLIES WILL BLOW THE TOP OFF ANY LAND BREEZE CONVECTION
OVER THE GULF.

SUNDAY...FAIRLY STRONG UPPER TROF PROGGED TO BE OVER THE SOUTHWEST
BAHAMAS AND THE CENTRAL CARIBBEAN. DRY AIR ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE
TROF WILL START MAKING A RUN FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF OF THE FA BY
LATE IN THE DAY...BUT PROBABLY TOO LATE TO PREVENT ANOTHER ROUND OF
AFTERNOON CONVECTION OVER MOST AREAS. WILL GO 50 POPS ALL AREAS IN
A SCENARIO NOT TOO DIFFERENT FROM TODAY.

BY MONDAY...DRY AIR MENTIONED ABOVE SHOULD MAKE IT INTO THE FA...AND
SUBSIDENCE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE TROF SHOULD BE IN PLACE. WILL
LOWER POPS...AND ALSO RAISE TEMPS TO ACCOUNT FOR MORE SUNSHINE.

MARINE: WINDS MIGHT BE A BIT STRONGER OVER THE SOUTHERN WATERS ON
MONDAY AS THE TROF MOVES CLOSER. WILL SEPARATE OUT THE AREA FROM
ENGLEWOOD SOUTH TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS.

EXTENDED: AVN LOOKS TOO WRAPPED UP WITH SYSTEM OVER WESTERN CUBA IN
72 HOURS. PREFER AN OPEN WAVE MORE LIKE THE ETA. COULD EVEN SEE THE
ENERGY SPLIT WITH SOME MOVING NORTHWARD OFF THE EAST COAST OF
FLORIDA AND MORE MOVING WESTWARD THROUGH THE YUCATAN CHANNEL SOUTH
OF US. WILL JUST KEEP A CLIMO SCENARIO FOR NOW AND WAIT FOR ANOTHER
MODEL RUN OR TWO TO SEE IF THEY FALL INTO BETTER AGREEMENT.

PRELIM NUMBERS:
TPA 75/91/75/93 3534
FMY 74/92/74/94 3534

.TBW...NONE.

ALSHEIMER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 29, 3:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
321 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LCOCATION....

0303 PM    3 SW CITRUS SPGS          FL   .75 INCH HAIL
07/29/00   CITRUS                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 8:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hernando, Pasco	32 min

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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.