Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2007, 2:38 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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
- May 5, 2007, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2007, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Charlotte County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 051838 SVRTBW FLC015-051915- /O.NEW.KTBW.SV.W.0021.070505T1838Z-070505T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 238 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 238 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...OVER CENTRAL CHARLOTTE COUNTY...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BABCOCK RANCH BY 240 PM EDT. TUCKERS CORNER BY 315 PM EDT. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL... TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. PLEASE REPORT TORNADOES OR FUNNEL CLOUDS...WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER...HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES OF LARGER...AND ANY WIND DAMAGE TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN BY CALLING 813-645-2323. && LAT...LON 2701 8175 2699 8194 2678 8193 2678 8165 $$ 57
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KTBW 051915 SVSTBW SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 315 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2007 FLC015-051922- /O.EXP.KTBW.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070505T1915Z/ CHARLOTTE- 315 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORM HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF THIS STORM RESTRENGTHENS THEN ANOTHER WARNING WILL BE ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. && LAT...LON 2701 8175 2699 8194 2678 8193 2678 8165 $$ 57
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte | 26 min |
| May 5, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 35 min |
| May 5, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hernando | 35 min |
| May 5, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto | 31 min |
| May 5, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco | 43 min |
| May 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Lee | 33 min |
| May 5, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 36 min |
| May 5, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Levy | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.