Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2004, 4:10 PM EDT for Pasco County, Florida. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2004, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pasco County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KTBW 142010 FFWTBW FLC101-142115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 410 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN PASCO COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 410 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES OF THREE INCHES PER HOUR. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND INTERSECTIONS. POOR DRAINAGE AREAS ARE MOST AT RISK. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS DONT BECOME A STATISTIC. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN && LAT...LON 2842 8228 2819 8227 2820 8268 2844 8268 $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sumter | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 1:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 31 min | |
| Aug 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 57 min | |
| Aug 14, 1:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 2:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 2:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 47 min | |
| Aug 14, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 2:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 65 min | |
| Aug 14, 3:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 13 min |
| Aug 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 61 min | |
| Aug 14, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Levy | 21 min |
| Aug 14, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 5:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Levy | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 54 min | |
| Aug 14, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 64 min | |
| Aug 14, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.