Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 385
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2007, 11:30 AM EDT for 23 counties in Florida. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2007, 11:30 AM EDT (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2007, 5:22 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 23 counties
Brevard County, FL, Citrus County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Indian River County, FL, Lake County, FL, Levy County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Martin County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Sarasota County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 12:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Seminole, Volusia | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Saint Lucie | 52 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 816 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:03 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 8:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:09 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus and 34 more | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 1:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden and 17 more | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 3:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hernando and 18 more | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 4:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Saint Lucie | 61 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.