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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2001, 3:11 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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 21, 2001, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2001, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hillsborough County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 3:20 PM EDT | Hail 2 | Temple Terrace, FL | Hen egg to dime sized hail was reported by the Temple Terrace fire department and public from near the intersection of Interstate 75 and State Road 582 (Fletcher Blvd) to near the intersection of Interstates 75 and 4. |
| Aug 21, 3:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Temple Terrace, FL | The Temple Terrace fire department reported that thunderstorm winds tore and lifted away a 16 foot by 30 foot parks and recreation shed, over a six foot fence along the Tampa Bypass Canal, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 301 and Interstate 75. Also, thu |
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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 2741 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hardee | 29 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.