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Lake Wind Advisory 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

February 15, 201715 counties in Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this lake wind advisory at Feb 15, 2017, 3:10 AM EST for 15 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 15, 2017, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 15, 2017, 3:10 AM EST (08:10 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 15, 2017, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 15, 2017, 7:00 PM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties Charlotte County, FL, Citrus County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Levy County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sarasota County, FL, Sumter County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2017-02-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 564 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2017-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind 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 lake wind advisory went out at Feb 15, 12:51 AM EST, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 12:51 AM EST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 3:03 AM ESTRip Current StatementTBWCharlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota22 hr
Feb 15, 2:22 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementTBWCitrus38 min
Feb 15, 2:40 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningTBW20 min
Feb 15, 2:46 PM ESTTornado Warning Tornado observedTBWCitrus14 min
Feb 15, 2:59 PM ESTBeach Hazards StatementTBWSarasota4 days
Feb 15, 3:03 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementTBWSumter27 min
Feb 15, 3:28 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWSumter20 min
Feb 15, 3:57 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningTBW33 min
Feb 15, 4:17 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementTBWOsceola28 min
Feb 15, 4:21 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk24 min

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Florida, 2017Every lake wind advisory 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.