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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 1, 2000Charlotte County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2000, 5:41 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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: Aug 1, 2000, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Charlotte County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 1, 5:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Punta Gorda, FL	The Charlotte County Sheriffs Department reported that thunderstorm winds downed several large trees, branches and power lines near the intersection of U.S. Highway 17 and Cleveland Drive in Punta Gorda.

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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KTBW 012144
SVRTBW
FLC015-012215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
541 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CHARLOTTE COUNTY.

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 541 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...
  FROM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUNTA GORDA TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  PUNTA GORDA...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* AT 541 PM EDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC IN       
  SOUTHERN PUNTA GORDA NEAR BURNT STORE ROAD.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT...
  CLEVELAND.
  CHARLOTTE HARBOR.
  PORT CHARLOTTE.

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 2678 8182 2703 8188 2703 8217 2677 8208

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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 Aug 1, 2:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 2:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
235 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000

CURRENTLY...SCATTERED CONVECTION BREAKING OUT ACROSS FORECAST AREA
WITH BEST COVERAGE ALONG WEST COAST SEA BREEZE STUCK ALONG COAST
FROM SRQ NORTHWARD AND ALSO ALONG EAST COAST SEA BREEZE MOVING
TOWARD INTERIOR ZONES. STORM THAT DEVELOPED NEAR MOUTH OF TAMPA BAY
PRODUCED A SHORT LIVED WATERSPOUT VISIBLE FROM OFFICE AROUND 1720Z.

FORECAST...MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE LITTLE CHANGE IN UPPER LEVELS
FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. WAVE MOVING THROUGH BAHAMAS WILL ELONGATE AND
GRADUALLY WEAKEN OVER THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY.
PLENTY OF MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM IN ON SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW
AND THIS COMBINED WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND SEA BREEZE INTERACTIONS
WILL CAUSE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS
EACH DAY. TEMPERATURES SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE NEAR NORMAL FOR THE
NEXT FEW DAYS WITH LOWS IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 70S AND HIGHS FROM
AROUND 90 TO THE LOWER 90S.

MARINE...SOUTHEAST FLOW EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF
THE WEEK WITH WINDS REMAINING BELOW 15 KNOTS...SO NO HIGHLIGHTS
ANTICIPATED.

FIRE WEATHER...LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL REMAIN IN THE
50 TO 60 PERCENT RANGE OR WELL ABOVE WATCH/WARNING CRITERIA.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
TPA TB 074/090 075/090 5655
FMY TB 074/091 074/091 5655

.TBW...NONE.

PRC

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 1, 2:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
215 PM EDT TUE AUG 01 2000

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

0115 PM    4 NNW PALMA SOLA          FL   WATERSPOUT
08/01/00   MANATEE                        EVENT DURATION 10
                                          MINUTES. OBSERVED BY
                                          THE PUBLIC AND NWS
                                          METEOROLOGISTS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Lee	46 min
Aug 1, 5:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Lee	31 min
Aug 1, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Hillsborough, Pasco	41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.