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Red Flag Warning 17, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

March 16, 2013Pinellas County, Polk County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 16, 2013, 4:43 AM EDT for Pinellas County, Polk County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 16, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
Mar 16, 2013, 4:43 AM EDT (08:43 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 16, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired
Mar 16, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2013-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2013-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.