Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 9:02 PM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 4, 2001, 9:02 PM EDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2001, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pinellas County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1407 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 050103 SVRTBW FLC103-050130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 902 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PINELLAS COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 930 PM EDT. * AT 902 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...FROM 9 MILES EAST OF CLEARWATER TO 13 MILES EAST OF TARPON SPRINGS...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT... HIGHPOINT. OLDSMAR. CLEARWATER. PALM HARBOR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER...AND HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. $$ 13 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 Jun 4, 2:30 PM EDT, 6 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:30 PM EDT, 6 hours 32 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 230 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001 UPPER RIDGE AXIS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE STATE WITH SFC RIDGE CURRENTLY PLACED OVER THE N FL. SE LOW LEVEL FLOW GENERATING STREAKY CU FIELD AS WEST COAST SEABREEZE BEGINNING TO SLOWLY PUSH INLAND AS SEEN IN SAT IMAGERY. CURRENT TEMPS WARMING TO NEAR EXPECTED CONVECTIVE TEMPS SO EXPECT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO BEGIN SHORTLY THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH DEEPENING SE FLOW/MOISTURE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. MODEL SOUNDING SHOWING PWATS APPROACHING 2 INCHES WITH LIS -5 TO -6 AND CAPES OVER 3000 TO CONTINUE UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT OVER THE AREA. ALL MODEL GRAPHICS ALSO INDICATING AFTERNOON PRECIP FIELDS OVER INTERIOR ZONES THEN MOVING OVER THE COAST THEREAFTER AS STRONGER E COAST SEABREEZE DRIVES CONVECTION WESTWARD. WILL BUY OFF ON THIS SOLUTION WITH THE COMBINATION OF UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE/DIURNAL HEATING AND BOUNDARY COLLISIONS FOR CHANCE EVENING POPS TONIGHT WITH LIKELY POPS ON WED AFTERNOON INTO EVENING. MODEL TEMPS LOOK GOOD WILL BLEND. MARINE...SE FLOW TO CONTINUE WITH NO HIGHLIGHTS OVER THE WATERS AS RIDGE REMAINS N THRU 48 HRS. RIDGE TO SINK S AS FRONT APPROACHES TO E GULF THU/FRI. EXTENDED...UPPER RIDGE TO SHIFT EASTWARD AS DEEPENING TROF MOVES INTO THE S MS RV VALLEY INTO THU. SFC FRONT TO APPROACH THE AREA THU NIGHT INTO FRI. UPPER SUPPORT WITH VORT MAX AT THE BASE OF THE TROF TO MOVE OVER THE AREA TO PRODUCE SCT CONVECTION AHEAD AND ALONG THE FRONT. FRONT EXPECTED TO GET HUNG OVER S FL PENINSULA OVER THE WEEKEND WITH MOISTURE S OF FRONT AND SOME SFC DRYING OVER THE N PENINSULA. UPPER TROF TO REMAIN OVER THE STATE LATE IN THE PERIOD WITH WEAK SFC RIDGING BUILDING IN. THX COORD MLB. PRELIM NUMBERS: TPA 75/91/75/90 4645 FMY 72/91/73/91 4645 .TBW...NONE. RD
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
717 PM EDT MON JUN 04 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0340 PM CITRUS SPGS FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/01 CITRUS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0459 PM TAMPA FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/01 HILLSBOROUGH LOCATED AT BUSCH AND
NEBRASKA RD. REPORTED
BY STORM SPOTTER.
0510 PM TAMPA FL 1 INCH HAIL
06/04/01 HILLSBOROUGH LOCATED AT SLIGH AND
HANNA RD. REPORTED BY
WFLA-TV.
0514 PM TAMPA FL .88 INCH HAIL
06/04/01 HILLSBOROUGH LOCATED AT BUSCH AND
DALE MABRY RD. REPORTED
BY STORM SPOTTER.
0515 PM TAMPA FL 1 INCH HAIL
06/04/01 HILLSBOROUGH LOCATED IN SEMINOLE
HEIGHTS. REPORTED BY
WFLA-TV.
0622 PM LAND O LAKES FL .88 INCH HAIL
06/04/01 PASCO REPORTED BY WTSP COOP
OBSERVER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Sarasota | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.