Alert archive / Florida / Flood Watches in 2016
Flood Watch 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this flood watch at Jan 28, 2016, 3:01 AM EST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 2016, 3:01 AM EST (08:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2016, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Charlotte County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Lee County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jan 27, 8:51 PM EST, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 8:51 PM EST, 6 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 3:45 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas | 4 hr |
| Jan 28, 2:48 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TBW | 19 hr |
Nearby
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.