Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 6:50 PM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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 3, 2000, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 7:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Auburndale, FL | The Auburndale Police Department reported dime sized hail in Auburndale. |
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, 10.8 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
- 224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1051 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 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 032250 SVRTBW FLC105-032325- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 650 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN FLORIDA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN POLK COUNTY. * UNTIL 725 PM EDT. * AT 650 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINTER HAVEN...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... WINTER HAVEN. AUBURNDALE. POLK CITY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER...AND HAIL THE SIZE OF DIME S OR LARGER. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. $$ LAT...LON 2797 8188 2802 8171 2832 8173 2830 8196 15 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 Aug 3, 2:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 215 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000 CURRENTLY...TCU FIELD DEVELOPING OVER THE PENINSULA AS E COAST SEABREEZE MOVES INLAND GENERATING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN MY INTERIOR COUNTIES. TAIL END OF SFC TROF IN NORTH CENTRAL GULF AND VORT MAX OVER THE REGION KEEPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN MY NORTHERN COASTAL WATERS AND EXTREME NORTHERN COASTAL COUNTIES. FORECAST...UPPER LEVEL TROUGH NOW FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO THE DEEP SOUTH TO MOVE TO THE EASTERN SEABOARD IN 48 HOURS. 5H HIGH REMAINS OVER THE DESERT SW AND THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC. EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING WITH BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SEA BREEZES AS OUTFLOWS CONTINUE. AVN SEEMS BEST IN INITIALIZING CURRENT ACTIVITY AROUND THE SE...SO WILL LEAN TOWARDS IT. TOMORROW PVA OVER N FL TO PROVIDE MORE LIFT THAN TODAY...AS SEEN IN THE OMEGA FIELDS OVER THE NORTHERN CWA. ELSEWHERE...AS WITH SE FLOW OVER FL EXPECT CLIMO CONDITIONS WITH AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...TEMPS...LOWS 70 TO LOWER 70S AND HIGHS LOWER 90S...SO WILL STAY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE. EXTENDED...MRF...NOGAPS...AND ECMWF ALL SHOW SFC RIDGE AND SOUTHEAST FLOW TO CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THRU THE EXTENDED SO WILL CONTINUE CLIMO TEMPS AND POPS. MARINE...RIDGE AXIS THROUGH THE COASTAL WATERS TO SLOWLY DRIFT SOUTH THRU SAT THEN MEANDER BACK OVER THE NORTHERN WATERS THRU THE EXTENDED AS SOUTHEAST WINDS PREVAIL. NO HIGHLIGHTED NEEDED. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... TPA TT 075/090 075/090 4646 FMY TT 073/092 073/092 4545 .TBW...NONE. RD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 38 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.