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High Surf Advisory 5, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this high surf advisory at Oct 8, 2018, 5:35 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Oct 8, 2018, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2018, 5:35 AM EDT (09:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 8, 2018, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 11, 2018, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf 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 high surf advisory went out at Oct 8, 5:33 AM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 5:33 AM EDT, 2 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 5:33 AM EDT | Hurricane Watch | TBW | 12 hr | |
| Oct 8, 5:33 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Levy, Manatee, Pasco and 1 more | 58 hr |
| Oct 8, 5:35 AM EDT | Rip Current Statement | TBW | Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota | 3 days |
| Oct 8, 5:38 AM EDT | Storm Surge Watch | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Levy, Manatee, Pasco and 1 more | 60 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:59 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | TBW | Charlotte, Lee, Sarasota | 54 hr |
| Oct 8, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee | 34 min |
| Oct 8, 1:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Charlotte | 42 min |
| Oct 8, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Charlotte, Sarasota | 42 min |
| Oct 8, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 24 min | |
| Oct 8, 5:06 PM EDT | Storm Surge Warning | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Levy, Pasco | 54 hr |
| Oct 8, 5:06 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | TBW | Citrus, Levy | 51 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:00 PM EDT | Hurricane Warning | TBW | 50 hr |
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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.