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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

January 7, 201514 counties in Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 7, 2015, 10:22 AM EST for 14 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 8, 2015, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 7, 2015, 10:22 AM EST (15:22 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 8, 2015, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 8, 2015, 10:00 AM EST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties Charlotte County, FL, Citrus County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Levy County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sarasota County, FL, Sumter County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:25 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2460 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 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 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 7, 10:22 AM EST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 10:22 AM EST, 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
Jan 7, 4:24 AM EST	Gale Warning	TBW		29 hr
Jan 7, 4:24 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	TBW		36 hr
Jan 7, 10:22 AM EST	Rip Current Statement	TBW	Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota	30 hr
Jan 7, 10:22 AM EST	High Surf Advisory	TBW	Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota	18 hr
Jan 7, 10:23 AM EST	Freeze Warning	TBW	Citrus, Hernando, Sumter	23 hr
Jan 7, 10:23 AM EST	Hard Freeze Warning	TBW	Levy	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.