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Coastal Flood Statement 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

April 19, 2020Citrus County, Levy County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this coastal flood statement at Apr 19, 2020, 6:01 PM EDT for Citrus County, Levy County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 20, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2020, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 20, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 20, 2020, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties Citrus County, FL, Levy County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at Apr 19, 1:52 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:52 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 5:42 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	TBW		26 hr
Apr 19, 5:46 PM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	TBW	Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 9 more	25 hr
Apr 19, 6:01 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TBW	Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota	44 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Florida, 2020 Every coastal flood statement in 2020

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.