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High Surf Advisory 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this high surf advisory at Aug 22, 2008, 5:06 AM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 51 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2008, 5:06 AM EDT (09:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 51 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
County Pinellas County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Aug 22, 2:55 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:55 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 5:45 AM EDT, 23 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 545 AM EDT THU AUG 21 2008 FLZ039-042-043-048-212145- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO- 545 AM EDT THU AUG 21 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...FLOOD IMPACT... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES OF LEVY...CITRUS...SUMTER AND HERNANDO THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING DUE TO VERY HEAVY RAINS EXPECTED WITH TROPICAL STORM FAY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN BANDS PERSIST THE LONGEST. ...TROPICAL STORM IMPACT... TROPICAL STORM FAY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE BY TO THE NORTH WITH BANDS OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. WINDS WILL BE INCREASING WITH A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG WITH AN INCREASE IN SURF AND TIDE LEVELS. SEAS ON THE COASTAL WATERS WILL ALSO BE BUILDING TO 7 FEET IN WINDS OF 20 TO 25 KNOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. TROPICAL STORM FAY WILL BE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN FLORIDA THROUGH SATURDAY...ALLOWING RAINFALL AND WINDS TO GRADUALLY DECREASE ACROSS THE AREA. ...WIND AND SEA IMPACT... .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED. FLZ049>052-055>057-060>062-065-212145- PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK-MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS- SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 545 AM EDT THU AUG 21 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND ALSO SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...TROPICAL STORM IMPACT... TROPICAL STORM FAY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE BY TO THE NORTH WITH BANDS OF SHOWERS AND VIOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THE SHOWERS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH MINOR FLOODING POSSIBLE. WINDS WILL BE INCREASING WITH A MODERATE TO HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG WITH AN INCREASE IN SURF AND TIDE LEVELS. SEAS ON THE COASTAL WATERS WILL ALSO BE BUILDING TO UP TO 7 FEET IN WINDS AROUND 20 TO GUSTS TO 30 KNOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. TROPICAL STORM FAY WILL BE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN FLORIDA THROUGH SATURDAY...ALLOWING RAINFALL AND WINDS TO GRADUALLY DECREASE ACROSS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED. RKR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 11:55 PM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Warning | TBW | Sumter | 23 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:55 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | TBW | 23 hr | |
| Aug 22, 8:18 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | TBW | Citrus, Levy | 5 days |
| Aug 22, 11:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Glades | 24 min |
| Aug 22, 11:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Lee | 44 min |
| Aug 22, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Lee | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 4:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Lee | 91 min |
| Aug 22, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 20 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.