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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2005, 10:36 PM EDT for Pasco County, Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2005, 10:36 PM EDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2005, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 May 31, 8:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 8:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 825 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 .DISCUSSION...TEMPS MADE A NICE RECOVERY AFTER THE MORNING RAIN...AND THE SUBSEQUENT CIRRUS DISSIPATION BY EARLY AFTN. HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE UPPER 80S ALONG THE CENTRAL AND SRN COASTLINE...AND IN THE MID 80S ELSEWHERE. ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO BE JUICED...DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER 70S...AND UNSTABLE AS INDICATED BY BOTH THE GOES SOUNDER AND THE 00Z TBW SOUNDING. ATTIM MOST WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY...THOUGH MAINLY SHRA...IS OVER THE NRN COUNTIES. ON CELL HAS STOOD OUT WEST OF BAYPORT...AND HAVE SMW ON THIS ONE. ANOTHER SET OF TSTMS IS FORMING OVER THE SRN COUNTIES IN THE WAKE OF AN OUTFLOW BNDY FORMED BY THE STRONG CELL NOW OVER WRN LAKE OKEECHOBEE. GIVEN WIDESPREAD INSTABILITY...WILL BUMP POPS UP OVER THE SOUTH TO MATCH CENTRAL ZONES. AM CONCERNED ABOUT POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WX AS NEXT ROUND OF TSTMS MOVES IN OVERNIGHT. SFC WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE FROM THE SSE... THEN THE WINDS TURN SWRLY. GFS HAS A 50-60 KT 850MB JET OVER THE EXTREME NE GULF BY 12Z TOMORROW. IF THESE CONDITIONS DEVELOP...WILL LIKELY SEE SOME SUPERCELLS DEVELOP...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLD TORNADOES A POSSIBILITY...WITH THE STRONGEST THREAT BEING UP NORTH... AND OVER THE TAMPA BAY AREA. CURRENT SPC DAY ONE OUTLOOK HAS THREAT ALL ALONG THE GULF COAST...AND THE SVR STORM THAT DEVELOPED IN THE EVERGLADES THIS EVENING INDICATES THE GENERAL INSTABILITY OVER THE FA. REFER TO THE SPECIAL WX STATEMENT ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE EARLIER THIS AFTN...AS WELL AS UPDATES FROM THE SPC FOR THE POTENTIAL THREAT FOR OUR AREA AND ANY UPDATES ON SEVERE WX THREAT OVERNIGHT. WILL INCLUDE WORDING FOR STRONGER STORMS IN UPDATE LATER THIS EVENING. && .MARINE...WINDS AT BUOY 42036 NOT AS HIGH AS FORECAST AT THIS POINT...BUT SEAS ARE AROUND 4 TO 5 FT. FOR BUOY 42003...IMMEDIATELY BEHIND A LINE OF TSTMS IN THE ERN GULF...WINDS HAVE GUSTED TO 40 KTS WITH SEAS UP TO 8 FT. PREFER TO KEEP SCEC UP MAINLY FOR WAVE HEIGHTS AND FOR POSSIBILITY OF HIGHER WINDS AND SEAS IN AND AROUND TSTMS. FOR TOMORROW...STILL EXPECTING WINDS NEAR ADVISORY CRITERIA... ESPECIALLY OVER THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN WATERS. WILL HEADLINE WITH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY. && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SMALL CRAFT EXERCISE CAUTION ALL WATERS. && RJS
Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 4:39 AM EDT, 17 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 439 AM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-311453- CHARLOTTE-CITRUS-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HERNANDO-HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-LEE- LEVY-MANATEE-PASCO-PINELLAS-POLK-SARASOTA-SUMTER- 439 AM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: AN UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. TONIGHT. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE GULF WILL SPREAD OVER THE AREA EARLY THIS MORNING. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN BUT DRY CONDITIONS OVER THE LAST THREE WEEKS WILL LIMIT THE THREAT TO MINOR FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NORTH OF BROOKSVILLE. THERE IS A THREAT OF WATERSPOUTS AND BRIEF DOWNBURST WINDS ALONG THE ENTIRE COAST UNTIL 7 AM. RAIN WILL PERSIST NORTH OF BROOKSVILLE FOR MUCH OF THE DAY BUT AREAS TO THE SOUTH CAN EXPECT A SECOND ROUND OF ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON. ONLY ISOLATED PULSE SEVERE STORMS WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF PENNY SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FOR AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 4 THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS ALONG THE COAST WILL LEAD TO A LOW TO MODERATE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS. A RIP CURRENT IS A 10 TO 30 YARD WIDE CHANNEL OF WATER THAT CAN PULL EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER INTO DEEPER WATER. IF CAUGHT IN THE SEAWARD PULL OF A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MOVE DIRECTLY TOWARD SHORE. INSTEAD...MOVE SIDEWAYS ACROSS THE RIP CURRENT UNTIL THE PULL EASES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY: A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL REMAIN ANCHORED IN THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS WILL LEAVE THE AREA IN A DEEP AND MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WITH AN ACTIVE STORM PATTERN. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE AREA BUT ISOLATED PULSE SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE. CONDITIONS IMPROVE FRIDAY AS A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OVER CUBA MOVES INTO CENTRAL FLORIDA. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THROUGHOUT THE DAY. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLOODING AND BE SURE TO PHONE IN YOUR RAIN FALL AMOUNTS. && FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW (LOWER CASE) NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY: NOAH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 5:26 PM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 31, 8:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 849 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 FLZ042-010115- CITRUS- 849 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM RACING TOWARD THE CITRUS COUNTY COAST... A THUNDERSTORM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...WILL AFFECT OZELLO...HOMOSASSA SPRINGS AND CRYSTAL RIVER...BY 915 PM EDT. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE ONSHORE AROUND 9 PM. GUSTY WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH MAY CAUSE LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND WIRES IS POSSIBLE. THE STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE A SHORT LIVED SMALL TORNADO. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW SPOT...AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FOR THIS CELL BY 9 PM. BSG
Special weather statement, May 31, 9:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 915 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 FLZ042-010145- CITRUS- 915 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS WESTERN CITRUS COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...WILL AFFECT OZELLO AND HOMOSASSA SPRINGS THROUGH 925 PM...AND CONTINUE TOWARD BEVERLY HILLS AND INVERNESS BY 945 PM. GUSTY WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH MAY CAUSE LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND WIRES IS POSSIBLE. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW SPOT...AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. BSG
Special weather statement, May 31, 9:45 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 945 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 FLZ042-010200- CITRUS- 945 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUING TO RAKE CITRUS COUNTY NOW HEADED FOR THE WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER... A THUNDERSTORM...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH...WILL AFFECT INVERNESS AND HERNANDO...UNTIL 1000 PM EDT. GUSTY WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH MAY CAUSE LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND WIRES IS POSSIBLE. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW SPOT...AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. BSG
Special weather statement, May 31, 10:00 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 1000 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 FLZ042-010245- CITRUS- 1000 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO CRANK NOW MOVING EAST OF HIGHWAY 41 PAST INVERNESS AND HERNANDO A THUNDERSTORM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH...WILL AFFECT INVERNESS...UNTIL 1045 PM EDT. GUSTY WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH MAY CAUSE LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND WIRES IS POSSIBLE. EXCESSIVE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED IF OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW SPOT...AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...REFRAIN FROM USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS...AND MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. && THE STORM SHOULD EXIT THE COUNTY BETWEEN 1015 AND 1025 PM. BSG
Special weather statement, May 31, 10:00 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 1000 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 FLZ042-010245- CITRUS- 1000 PM EDT TUE MAY 31 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO CRANK NOW MOVING EAST OF HIGHWAY 41 PAST INVERNESS AND HERNANDO... A THUNDERSTORM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH...WILL AFFECT INVERNESS...UNTIL 1045 PM EDT. GUSTY WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH MAY CAUSE LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND WIRES IS POSSIBLE. EXCESSIVE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED IF OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW SPOT...AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...REFRAIN FROM USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS...AND MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. && THE STORM SHOULD EXIT THE COUNTY BETWEEN 1015 AND 1025 PM. BSG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 42 min | |
| May 31, 10:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 59 min | |
| Jun 1, 1:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 2:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 3:54 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 66 min |
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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.