Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2017
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
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.
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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.
- 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
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
$$
TBWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 12:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | TBW | Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 9 more | 53 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:01 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 4 days |
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.