Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2004, 10:00 AM EST for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 25, 2004, 10:00 AM EST (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2004, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lee County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:01 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTBW 251500 SVRTBW FLC071-251545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 959 AM EST WED FEB 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LEE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 1045 AM EST * AT 959 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...EXTENDING FROM LEHIGH ACRES TO BONITA SPRINGS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... BONITA SPRINGS. LEHIGH ACRES. && LAT...LON 2648 8203 2630 8190 2634 8154 2667 8157 $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 25, 9:30 AM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 9:30 AM EST, 30 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 930 AM EST WED FEB 25 2004 .CURRENT/SHORT TERM...WIND FROM EASTERLY DIRECTION OVER FORECAST AREA FLOWING INTO BROAD LOW OVER THE GULF. AREA OF RAIN MAINLY FROM TAMPA BAY SOUTH WITH A VIGOROUS BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTH MARINE AREA. MODELS IN AGREEMENT ON DECREASING PRECIPITABLE WATER BUT KEEPING ENOUGH MOISTURE FOR AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN OR SHOWERS PASSING BY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT UNTIL THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES EAST OF THE AREA. A BREAK IN THE CLOUDS EXISTS OVER THE NORTHERN ZONES AND THIS SHOULD BE SPREADING SOUTH DURING THE DAY. SOME PATCHY FOG WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT IN CLOUDLESS WIND PROTECTED AREAS WHERE RADIATIONAL COOLING CAN OCCUR. && .MARINE.... OFFSHORE WINDS HAVE SMOOTHED NEARSHORE WATERS BUT JUST OFFSHORE...WINDS STILL IN THE SCEC TO SCA RANGE. WILL ASSESS ADVISORIES BEFORE NEXT UPDATE. && .FIRE WEATHER...NO PROBLEMS THROUGH THURSDAY. && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SCA BONITA BCH TO ENGLEWOOD OUT 60 NM. SCEC ENGLEWOOD TO SUWANNEE RVR OUT 60 NM...INCLUDING TAMPA BAY CP
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 25, 5:00 AM EST, 5 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 500 AM EST WED FEB 25 2004 ...HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALLY SEVERE WEATHER EVENT WINDING DOWN... .LOW PRESSURE IN THE CENTRAL GULF WILL CONTINUE TO GENERATE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS THIS MORNING JUST SOUTH OF TAMPA THROUGH SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED DRAMATICALLY ACROSS THE NATURE COAST WHERE ONLY LIGHT RAINS ARE EXPECTED. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER NOW EXISTS ONLY IN LEE COUNTY...WHERE THE FRONT HAS YET TO PASS. FLZ039-042-043-048-251600- CITRUS-HERNANDO-LEVY-SUMTER- 500 AM EST WED FEB 25 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR FLORIDAS NATURE COAST. .DAY ONE...TODAY: THOUGH A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT...CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO IMPROVE. THE WATCH WILL LIKELY BE CANCELLED LATER THIS MORNING. NO ADDITIONAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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 (LOWER CASE) FLZ049>052-251600- HILLSBOROUGH-PASCO-PINELLAS-POLK- 500 AM EST WED FEB 25 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR TAMPA BAY AND POLK COUNTY. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ...RAIN ON THE WANE... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE FROM SAINT PETERSBURG EAST TO LAKE WALES THROUGH 8 OR 9 AM BEFORE BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF. MINOR MAINLY URBAN FLOODING MAY OCCUR...ESPECIALLY IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TODAY. HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. SMALL STREAMS MAY BRIEFLY EXCEED BANK FULL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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 (LOWER CASE) FLZ055>057-060-061-251600- DE SOTO-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-MANATEE-SARASOTA- 500 AM EST WED FEB 25 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SARASOTA BRADENTON AND POINTS EAST. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING THEN IMPROVEMENT LATER TODAY... A BAND OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN THE SARASOTA BRADENTON AREA THROUGH MID MORNING...EXTENDING EAST TO HARDEE...DESOTO...AND HIGHLANDS COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL BE NEAR THE COAST...WHERE 1 TO 2 INCHES MAY FALL BEFORE THE PRECIPITATION TAPERS OFF LATER THIS MORNING OR EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. MINOR MAINLY URBAN FLOODING MAY OCCUR...ESPECIALLY IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. SMALL STREAMS MAY BRIEFLY EXCEED BANK FULL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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 (LOWER CASE) FLZ062-065-251600- CHARLOTTE-LEE- 500 AM EST WED FEB 25 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN BANDS WILL SHIFT INTO SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AFTER SUNRISE AS A FRONT CONTINUES TO SAG SOUTH. EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENHANCE RAIN TOTALS...AND WILL CONTAIN OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 25 MPH. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. STORM TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE LIKELY BY AFTERNOON...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS UP TO 3 INCHES WHERE STRONGER CELLS DEVELOP. MINOR MAINLY URBAN FLOODING MAY OCCUR LATER THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE BY EVENING. HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. SMALL STREAMS MAY BRIEFLY EXCEED BANK FULL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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 (LOWER CASE) BSG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 8:20 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 55 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.