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Hurricane Warning 1006, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this hurricane warning at Aug 18, 2008, 12:01 PM EDT for DeSoto County, Florida. It was in force for 18 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2008, 12:01 PM EDT (16:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2008, 5:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
County DeSoto County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 2466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this hurricane 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 hurricane warning went out at Aug 18, 11:08 AM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 11:08 AM EDT, 53 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 12:00 AM EDT | Hurricane Local Statement | TBW | Sumter | 30 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:01 PM EDT | Inland Hurricane Warning | TBW | Hardee, Highlands | 13 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:27 PM EDT | Flood Watch | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk | 38 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:43 PM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Watch | TBW | Sumter | 8 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:43 PM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Warning | TBW | Hardee, Highlands, Polk | 30 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:43 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Pinellas | 4 days |
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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.