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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 3, 2008Sarasota County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2008, 2:35 PM EDT for Sarasota County, Florida. It was in force for 40 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
Jul 3, 2008, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2008, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Sarasota County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2008-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 325 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2008-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 12:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW47 min
Jul 3, 1:38 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBWCharlotte67 min
Jul 3, 2:13 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW36 min
Jul 3, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW28 min
Jul 3, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW42 min
Jul 3, 5:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk27 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.