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High Surf Advisory 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this high surf advisory at Jan 2, 2014, 3:39 PM EST for 7 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 3, 2014, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2014, 3:39 PM EST (20:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 3, 2014, 3:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2014, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 1:07 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TBW | Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:38 AM EST | Gale Watch | TBW | 11 hr | |
| Jan 2, 4:38 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TBW | 47 hr | |
| Jan 2, 4:46 AM EST | Freeze Watch | TBW | Levy | 24 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:00 PM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | TBW | Charlotte, Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lee, Levy and 4 more | 18 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:11 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Levy, Pasco, Polk and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:39 PM EST | Rip Current Statement | TBW | Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and 1 more | 24 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.