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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

August 2, 2016Highlands County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 2:26 PM EDT for Highlands County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL

County Highlands County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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 118 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: 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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 9:52 AM EDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 9:52 AM EDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 4:53 AM EDT, 9 hours 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
453 AM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

FLZ043-050-052-056-057-061-139-142-148-149-151-155-160-162-165-
239-242-248-249-251-255-260-262-265-GMZ830-836-850-853-856-870-
873-876-030000-
SUMTER-PINELLAS-POLK-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-DESOTO-COASTAL LEVY-
COASTAL CITRUS-COASTAL HERNANDO-COASTAL PASCO-
COASTAL HILLSBOROUGH-COASTAL MANATEE-COASTAL SARASOTA-
COASTAL CHARLOTTE-COASTAL LEE-INLAND LEVY-INLAND CITRUS-
INLAND HERNANDO-INLAND PASCO-INLAND HILLSBOROUGH-INLAND MANATEE-
INLAND SARASOTA-INLAND CHARLOTTE-INLAND LEE-TAMPA BAY WATERS-
CHARLOTTE HARBOR AND PINE ISLAND SOUND-
COASTAL WATERS FROM TARPON SPRINGS TO SUWANNEE RIVER FL OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM ENGLEWOOD TO TARPON SPRINGS FL OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM BONITA BEACH TO ENGLEWOOD FL OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM TARPON SPRINGS TO SUWANNEE RIVER FL OUT 20 TO 60 NM-
WATERS FROM ENGLEWOOD TO TARPON SPRINGS FL OUT 20 TO 60 NM-
WATERS FROM BONITA BEACH TO ENGLEWOOD FL OUT 20 TO 60 NM-
453 AM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP FROM LATE MORNING
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STORMS SHOULD GRADUALLY WEAKEN THIS
EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY...WITH THE
CHANCES SHIFTING TO MORE INTERIOR SECTIONS OF FLORIDA LATE THIS
WEEK. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...BUT A FEW
STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...TORRENTIAL
RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

AUSTIN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:21 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:26 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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

FLZ057-021900-
HIGHLANDS-
226 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT HIGHLANDS COUNTY...

AT 225 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CLUSTERED OVER
EASTERN HIGHLANDS COUNTY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SEBRING...AVON PARK...LAKE PLACID...SEBRING REGIONAL AIRPORT...
SYLVAN SHORES...LAKE ISTOKPOGA...AVON PARK AIR FORCE RANGE...
PLACID LAKES...LAKE JOSEPHINE...ARCHBOLD...LORIDA...
AVON PARK EXECUTIVE AIRPORT AND SEBRING SHORES.

LAT...LON 2710 8127 2715 8156 2764 8155 2764 8114
      2760 8114 2759 8116 2758 8116 2756 8118
      2755 8121 2752 8121 2751 8120 2749 8121
      2748 8118 2744 8114 2741 8114
TIME...MOT...LOC 1825Z 136DEG 14KT 2723 8126

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Lee	24 min
Aug 2, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Lee	29 min
Aug 2, 3:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Lee	54 min
Aug 2, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Lee	26 min
Aug 2, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Charlotte	44 min
Aug 2, 4:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Lee	56 min
Aug 2, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Manatee	33 min
Aug 2, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Sarasota	44 min
Aug 2, 5:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Charlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota	61 min
Aug 2, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TBW		32 min
Aug 2, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Sarasota	39 min
Aug 2, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Hillsborough	34 min
Aug 2, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Hillsborough	41 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.