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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 8, 2012Citrus County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2012, 8:39 AM EDT for Citrus County, Florida. It was in force for 66 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: Jun 8, 2012, 8:39 AM EDT (12:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2012, 9:45 AM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL

County Citrus County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1078 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 8, 4:04 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 4:04 AM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 5:27 AM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
527 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012

FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-GMZ830-850-853-856-870-
873-876-091000-
LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK-
MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DESOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE-
TAMPA BAY WATERS-TARPON SPRINGS TO SUWANNEE RIVER OUT 20 NM-
ENGLEWOOD TO TARPON SPRINGS OUT 20 NM-
BONITA BEACH TO ENGLEWOOD OUT 20 NM-
TARPON SPRINGS TO SUWANNEE RIVER OUT 20 TO 60 NM-
ENGLEWOOD TO TARPON SPRINGS OUT 20 TO 60 NM-
BONITA BEACH TO ENGLEWOOD OUT 20 TO 60 NM-
527 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE IN COMBINATION WITH A STALLED OUT FRONTAL
BOUNDARY ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN TODAY. GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THE
STRONGEST STORMS THAT DEVELOP. PERSISTENT HEAVY RAINFALL COULD
ALSO RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS.

...RIP CURRENT IMPACT...
THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE WEST-CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BEACHES AGAIN TODAY. REFER TO THE LATEST
BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY. THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THE STRONGEST
STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER
AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED.

JELSEMA

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 8:11 AM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 8:39 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 4:09 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	TBW	Pinellas	17 hr
Jun 8, 8:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Levy	49 min
Jun 8, 8:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		45 min
Jun 8, 9:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Citrus, Sumter	57 min
Jun 8, 10:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Citrus	57 min
Jun 8, 11:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Charlotte	59 min
Jun 8, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Hardee	29 min
Jun 8, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Hardee	44 min
Jun 8, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		34 min
Jun 8, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		63 min
Jun 8, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Pinellas	47 min
Jun 8, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Manatee	30 min
Jun 8, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Manatee	20 min
Jun 8, 7:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Hillsborough, Manatee	87 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.