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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 11, 2013Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2013, 5:11 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 11, 2013, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2013, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Lee County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2013-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2459 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2013-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 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
2459 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 3:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 3:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 6:28 AM EDT, 10 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
628 AM EDT TUE JUN 11 2013

FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-GMZ830-850-853-856-870-
873-876-111600-
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-
628 AM EDT TUE JUN 11 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG SEA BREEZE AND OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES THIS AFTERNOON. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE EAST OF
INTERSTATE 75. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER
STORMS.

...RIVER FLOOD IMPACT...
THE MANATEE RIVER AT MYAKKA HEAD AND THE LITTLE MANATEE RIVER AT
WIMAUMA ARE NEARING THEIR CRESTS THIS MORNING AND SHOULD BE
GRADUALLY FALLING THROUGH THE DAY TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE EACH DAY. STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTAIN GUSTY
WINDS...SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED.

COLSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 5:01 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 10:08 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningTBWHillsborough10 hr
Jun 11, 3:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWSumter56 min
Jun 11, 3:39 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBWCitrus, Sumter96 min
Jun 11, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHighlands60 min
Jun 11, 5:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWLee44 min
Jun 11, 5:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBWLee93 min

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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.