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Wind Chill Advisory 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 14, 2008, 1:58 PM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 15, 2008, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2008, 1:58 PM EST (18:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 15, 2008, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2008, 7:35 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 wind chill advisory went out at Jan 14, 1:43 PM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 1:43 PM EST, 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 14, 5:08 AM EST, 8 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 508 AM EST MON JAN 14 2008 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-141515- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 508 AM EST MON JAN 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...FIRE WEATHER IMPACT... A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ALONG WITH WINDS OF AROUND 15 MPH. THESE CONDITIONS WILL ENHANCE THE SPREAD OF ANY WILDFIRES THAT OCCUR TODAY. ...WIND AND SEA IMPACT... NORTHERLY WINDS AROUND 20 KNOTS WILL GENERATE ROUGH SEAS BETWEEN 20 AND 60 NM OFFSHORE. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT...AND FISHERMEN AND OTHER SMALL CRAFT OPERATORS MAY WANT TO POSTPONE TRIPS UNTIL CONDITIONS IMPROVE. ...COLD WEATHER... TEMPERATURES WILL PLUNGE INTO THE 30S AWAY FROM THE COAST TONIGHT. PATCHY FROST MAY DEVELOP TOWARD SUNRISE IN SOME OF THE MORE PROTECTED AREAS. WHILE LONG DURATIONS OF FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE NOT EXPECTED...SOME OF THE NORMALLY COLDER AREAS ALONG THE NATURE COAST COULD SEE SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT. RESIDENTS SHOULD COVER OR MOVE INDOORS ANY COLD SENSITIVE PLANTS LATER TODAY. ALSO...BRING PETS INDOORS THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ...FIRE WEATHER IMPACT... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. ...GULF LOW IMPACT... LOW PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP IN THE WESTERN GULF TUESDAY NIGHT AND MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARD NORTH FLORIDA ON WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A GALE CENTER...AND COULD BRING A MULTITUDE OF HAZARDS TO OUR REGION THIS WEEK. ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRONG LOW MAY MOVE ACROSS THE STATE ON THURSDAY. MOST OF THE ENERGY WILL HAVE LIFTED OUT TO THE NORTH ALREADY...BUT SOME STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY FOR THE NATURE COAST. ...COASTAL FLOOD IMPACT... STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS POSSIBLY UP TO GALE FORCE WILL DRIVE WATER UP INTO THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE GULF OF MEXICO. AS WINDS BEGIN TO TURN MORE SOUTHWESTERLY...THIS WATER WILL BE PUSHED TOWARD THE COASTLINE...RESULTING IN MINOR TO MODERATE COASTAL FLOODING. THE NATURE COAST IS THE MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE TIDES OF 1 TO 3 FEET ABOVE NORMAL. THE EXTENT OF ANY COASTAL FLOODING WILL DEPEND ON HOW STRONG THE SYSTEM GETS AND THE TIMING OF THE SURGE WITH RESPECT TO HIGH TIDE. ...RIP CURRENT IMPACT... STRONG RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED BY THURSDAY AS WINDS TURN ONSHORE AND WAVE ENERGY REACHES THE COAST. HIGH SURF WILL ALSO OCCUR... BRINGING HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TO AREA BEACHES. ...WIND AND SEA IMPACT... SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 25 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL TURN SOUTHWESTERLY AS THE LOW CROSSES NORTH FLORIDA ON THURSDAY. SEAS WILL BUILD TO AT LEAST 7 FEET...AND LIKELY HIGHER...ESPECIALLY IF WINDS ARE STRONGER THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. JILLSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 1:42 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter | 28 hr |
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.