Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Issued

Jun 18, 2001, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)

Expired

Jun 18, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Charlotte County, FL, Lee County, FL

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS52 KTBW 182130
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FLC015-071-182200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
529 PM EDT MON JUN 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
  NORTHERN LEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.

* AT 529 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...OVER
  SOUTHEASTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT...
  FORT MYERS.
  TICE.
  FORT MYERS SHORES.
  NORTH FORT MYERS.
  TUCKERS CORNER.  

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 2665 8185 2664 8166 2691 8159 2693 8182

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NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 18, 2:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
217 PM EDT MON JUN 18 2001

FORECAST PACKAGE RATHER CUT AND DRIED THROUGH THE SHORT TERM.
ABUNDANT MOISTURE...LEFTOVER WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCES...AND A
GENERAL WEAK SE FLOW BELOW H50 MEANS MORE ABUNDANT RAINFALL...WITH
TIMING MAINLY LATE AFTN AND EVENING.  CURR FCST WORDING ONLY NEEDS
A FEW TWEAKS.

MODELS ARE IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT...WITH EACH CONTINUING A BROAD H50
SHEAR AXIS ACROSS N FL.  OTHER FIELDS ARE NEARLY IDENTICAL...
AVN/ETA PERHAPS A BIT MOISTER.

SHORT TERM:
STILL LIKE THE MESO-ETA DEPICTION OF PREDOMINANTLY LATE AFTN/EVE
(TIL MIDNIGHT) THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COASTAL COS...A SHADE EARLIER
FOR THE INTERIOR COS.  ISOLD ACTIVITY MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE WCSB
LATE MORNING/EARLY AFTN...BUT WILL LEAVE OUT IN LIEU OF THE MORE
WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY LATER ON.  TEMPS A BIT COOLER INLAND GIVEN
PREDOMINANT E FLOW...AND RAIN COOLED AIR COMBINED WITH LIGHT FLOW
WILL KEEP MIN TEMPS NEAR OR JUST ABOVE 70.

EXTENDED:
UPPER TROUGH STILL ON TRACK TO DIG INTO THE ERN U.S.  NEW MRF SHOWS
THIS SYSTEM EVENTUALLY CUTTING OFF OVER THE TN VALLEY THEN
RETROGRADING W EARLY NEXT WEEK.  SUCH SYSTEMS ARE NOT UNCOMMON IN
LATE JUNE...AND TEND TO KEEP THE RAIN MACHINE GOING OVER THE E
U.S. FOR US...THE SOLN IS A BIT MURKY REGARDING TIMING.  W ATLC HIGH
PRES WILL HANG TOUGH...LEAVING A GENERAL LIGHT SE-SW FLOW.  FOR
NOW...WILL BROAD BRUSH FRI-MON WITH NO PCPN TIMING AND TEMPS NEAR
CLIMO.

MARINE:  STILL QUIET THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH AVG WINDS NO HIGHER
THAN 10 KT EXPECTED.

FIRE WX:  DITTO...WITH HOPEFULLY FEWER BRUSH FIRES AND MORE
WIDESPREAD RAIN SHOULD BEGIN TO DOUSE THEM.

PRELIM NUMBERS:
TPA TT 072/92/72/92 4454
FMY TT 071/92/71/92 5454

.TBW...NONE.

88/GOLDSMITH

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.