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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 19, 2003Citrus County, Hernando County, Pasco County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2003, 9:40 AM EDT for Citrus County, Hernando County, Pasco County, Florida. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 19, 2003, 9:40 AM EDT (13:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Citrus County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Pasco County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 1270 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WGUS52 KTBW 191343
FFWTBW
FLC017-053-101-191815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
940 AM EDT THU JUN 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ALL OF CITRUS...HERNANDO AND PASCO         
  COUNTIES UNTIL 2 PM EDT. 

  FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES IN CITRUS COUNTY.
  INVERNESS.
  HOMOSASSA SPRINGS.
  CRYSTAL RIVER.
  BEVERLY HILLS.
  
  IN HERNANDO COUNTY FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES.
  SPRING HILL.
  BROOKSVILLE.
  
  IN PASCO COUNTY FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES.
  ZEPHYRHILLS.
  NEW PORT RICHEY.
  HUDSON.
  DADE CITY.

* AT 930 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUOUSLY TRAINING ONSHORE
  FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO BETWEEN THE WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER AND NEW
  PORT RICHEY. RAINFALL RATES OF 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE LIKELY WITH
  MANY AREAS HAVING ALREADY RECEIVED 2 TO 4 INCHES WITH ACCUMULATED  
  TOTALS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES POSSIBLE.     

AT 919 AM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED THAT 
FLOODING HAS CAUSED EXTENSIVE FLOODING OF NUMEROUS ROADWAYS IN 
CITRUS COUNTY WITH THE CLOSURE OF SOME ROADWAYS AND INTERSECTIONS
INCLUDING U.S. 19 AT STATE ROAD 44 IN CRYSTAL RIVER. CITRUS COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS DISCOURAGING ANY UNNECESSARY TRAVEL 
THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. 

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.

DONT BECOME A STATISTIC. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN &&

LAT...LON 2900 8238 2819 8214 2819 8290 2896 8290

$$

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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.