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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2003, 1:30 PM EDT for Manatee County, Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 2 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 22, 2003, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2003, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Manatee County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 757 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KTBW 221729 FFWTBW FLC081-115-221930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 130 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MANATEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES. PALMETTO. ANNA MARIA ISLAND. BRADENTON. SARASOTA COUNTY IN FLORIDA. FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES. THE BARRIER ISLANDS. SARASOTA. VENICE. * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 130 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TORRENTIAL RAINS OF THREE TO FOUR INCHES PER HOUR. AT 130 PM EDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ALSO REPORTED STREET AND ROAD FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND INTERSECTIONS. POOR DRAINAGE AREAS ARE MOST AT RISK. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... AND SOME COUNTRY ROADS. FARMLAND ALONG STREAM BANKS WILL BE INUNDATED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING FLOOD MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS OR STREAMS. IF NEARING A FLOOD AREA...TURN AROUND AND DRIVE TO HIGHER TERRAIN. DONT BECOME A STATISTIC. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN && LAT...LON 2763 8211 2711 8210 2697 8242 2755 8277 $$ 25
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 22, 7:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 7:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 745 AM EDT SUN JUN 22 2003 CONVECTION INCREASING IN COVERAGE OVER NORTHERN FA EARLY THIS AM. HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO INCREASE POPS NORTHERN AREAS. EXPECT MORE CONVECTION TO DEVELOP LATER THIS MORNING...SIMILAR TO SATURDAY...ONCE DAYTIME HEATING KICKS IN HELPING TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. FLOODING PROBLEMS ABOUND WITH MANATEE RIVER AT MYAKKA HEAD REPORTED A RECORD STAGE OF 20.85 FEET LAST NIGHT AT 11:30. CEM SENT FOR MANATEE COUNTY DUE TO MANATEE DAM MALFUNCTION WITH VERY LARGE INFLOW. IT HAS BECOME NECESSARY FOR RESIDENTS LIVING DOWNSTREAM OF THE MANATEE RIVER DAM EAST OF UPPER MANATEE RIVER ROAD TO EVACUATE THERE HOMES. EXPECT CONTINUED AREAWIDE RIVER...RURAL...AND URBAN FLOOD PROBS THRU THE DAY. .TBW...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ZONES TODAY. RD
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 6:00 AM EDT, 7 hours 30 minutes before
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-221500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 600 AM EDT SUN JUN 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA TODAY... DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...AND THIS COMBINED WITH WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CAUSE PERIODS OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. WIDESPREAD RAINS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES...WITH LOCALLY 6 INCHES...IS LIKELY AGAIN TODAY...BUT MAINLY IN LOCATIONS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 4. ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SERIOUS PROBLEMS...INCLUDING WIDESPREAD FRESHWATER FLOODING. SUCH FLOODING COULD CLOSE DOZENS OF ROADS...INCLUDING A FEW MAJOR THOROUGHFARES...AND FLOOD PASTURE LAND. IN ADDITION...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL POSE A THREAT OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 35 MPH AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: THE REGION WILL SEE A RETURN TO MORE TYPICAL SUMMERTIME WEATHER WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW PRC
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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.