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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

September 9, 2017Lee County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 2017, 7:55 PM EDT for Lee County, Florida. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 2017, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 2017, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Lee County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2017-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1745 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2017-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

374 
WGUS52 KTBW 092355
FFWTBW
FLC071-100600-
/O.NEW.KTBW.FF.W.0002.170909T2355Z-170910T0600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Tampa Bay Area Ruskin FL
755 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2017

The National Weather Service in Ruskin has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Southeastern Lee County in southwestern Florida...

* Until 200 AM EDT Sunday

* At 753 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
  heavy rain across the warned area. Up to one inch of rain has
  already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Bonita Springs, North Naples and Estero. 

Bands of rainfall will continue through the rest of the night, and 
additional amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible in the warned area.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

&&

LAT...LON 2631 8189 2639 8190 2647 8156 2642 8156
      2642 8166 2632 8166 2631 8182 2633 8182
      2633 8185

$$

TBW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 12:24 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchTBWCharlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 9 more53 hr
Sep 9, 10:01 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningTBWHillsborough4 days

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 2017Every flash flood warning in 2017

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.