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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

November 16, 20025 counties in Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this flash flood warning at Nov 16, 2002, 10:43 AM EST for 5 counties in Florida. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 16, 2002, 10:43 AM EST (15:43 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2002, 1:30 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Charlotte County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Lee County, FL, Sarasota County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KTBW 161543
FFWTBW
FLC015-027-055-071-115-161830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1042 AM EST SAT NOV 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
 
  DESOTO COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
  FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES.
  ARCADIA.

  HIGHLANDS COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
  FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES.
  LAKE PLACID.

  CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
  FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES.
  PUNTA GORDA.
  PORT CHARLOTTE.

  LEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
  FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES.
  FORT MYERS.
  CAPE CORAL.

  SARASOTA COUNTY IN FLORIDA.
  FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES.
  ENGLEWOOD.
  NORTH PORT.

* UNTIL 130 PM EST

* AT 1040 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
RAINFALL RATES OF TWO TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR CONTINUING OVER THE 
WARNING AREA.

AT 1040 AM EST...WEATHER SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED FLOODING IN AREAS 
AROUND CAPE CORAL AND FORT MYERS...AS WELL AS PUNTA GORDA AND SOUTH 
OF ENGLEWOOD.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW.  RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND 
CREEKS...SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS NOW TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. 
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS...OR WATERS OF 
UNKNOWN DEPTH...BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE 
STALLS...ABANDON IT AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

&&

LAT...LON 2767 8117 2715 8119 2705 8158 2646 8160
          2633 8188 2680 8227 2721 8250 2721 8228
          2721 8203 2735 8156

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS72 KTBW 161656
FFSTBW
FLC015-027-055-071-115-161830-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1153 AM EST SAT NOV 16 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR DESOTO COUNTY...
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HIGHLANDS COUNTY...
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CHARLOTTE COUNTY... 
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LEE COUNTY...
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SARASOTA COUNTY...

...UNTIL 130 PM EST.

AT 1153 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR OVER PORTIONS OF THE 
WARNED AREA. WEATHER SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED FLOODING IN AREAS AROUND 
CAPE CORAL AND FORT MYERS...AS WELL AS PUNTA GORDA AND SOUTH OF 
ENGLEWOOD. 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND
CREEKS...SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS NOW TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS...OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN
DEPTH...BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT
AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

&&

LAT...LON 2710 8217 2665 8167 2736 8117 2739 8131

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 11:13 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		62 min
Nov 16, 1:46 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		44 min
Nov 16, 8:53 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		52 min
Nov 16, 10:10 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		50 min
Nov 16, 11:09 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		2 hr
Nov 16, 11:57 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		63 min
Nov 16, 12:55 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		2 hr
Nov 16, 12:55 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		2 hr
Nov 16, 1:06 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TBW		54 min
Nov 16, 1:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TBW	DeSoto	24 min
Nov 16, 1:30 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Lee, Manatee and 1 more	2 hr
Nov 16, 1:42 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands	48 min
Nov 16, 2:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Highlands, Polk	31 min
Nov 16, 2:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands, Polk	28 min
Nov 16, 3:27 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Charlotte, Lee	63 min
Nov 16, 4:24 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Lee	111 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.