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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this high surf advisory at Feb 24, 2016, 4:01 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 24, 2016, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2016, 4:01 AM EST (09:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2016, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2016, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf 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 high surf advisory went out at Feb 24, 12:41 AM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 12:41 AM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 4:01 AM EST | Rip Current Statement | TBW | Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota | 63 hr |
| Feb 24, 6:01 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 59 min | |
| Feb 24, 6:58 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 62 min | |
| Feb 24, 7:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Citrus | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 7:58 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 92 min | |
| Feb 24, 8:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hillsborough | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:28 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 62 min | |
| Feb 24, 9:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco, Polk, Sumter | 11 min |
| Feb 24, 10:13 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Pinellas | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 10:17 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 58 min |
| Feb 24, 11:08 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 52 min | |
| Feb 24, 11:17 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 28 min | |
| Feb 24, 11:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 27 min |
| Feb 24, 11:57 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 63 min | |
| Feb 24, 12:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Sarasota | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 12:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Sarasota | 29 min |
| Feb 24, 12:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 1:04 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 86 min | |
| Feb 24, 1:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 1:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 1:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 2:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto | 119 min |
| Feb 24, 2:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Charlotte, Lee | 53 min |
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.