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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 2, 2016Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 2:21 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 2016, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2016, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

County Lee County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2016-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 679 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2016-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

964 
WWUS82 KTBW 021821
SPSTBW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA / RUSKIN FL
221 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

FLZ165-265-021845-
INLAND LEE-COASTAL LEE-
221 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN LEE
COUNTY...

AT 221 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CLUSTERED OVER IMMOKALEE...
MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEHIGH ACRES...CHARLESTON PARK...THREE OAKS...SAN CARLOS PARK AND
ESTERO.

LAT...LON 2640 8185 2675 8158 2674 8157 2642 8156
      2642 8166 2633 8166
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 136DEG 14KT 2640 8148 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 2:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHighlands34 min
Aug 2, 3:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWLee29 min
Aug 2, 3:36 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBWLee54 min
Aug 2, 3:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWLee26 min
Aug 2, 4:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWCharlotte44 min
Aug 2, 4:34 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBWLee56 min
Aug 2, 4:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWManatee33 min
Aug 2, 5:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWSarasota44 min
Aug 2, 5:29 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBWCharlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota61 min
Aug 2, 5:43 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW32 min
Aug 2, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWSarasota39 min
Aug 2, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHillsborough34 min
Aug 2, 6:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHillsborough41 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.