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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this special weather statement at Apr 19, 2021, 3:00 PM EDT for Highlands County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2021, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2021, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
County Highlands County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 19, 2:23 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 2:23 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 19, 10:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 9:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 37 min | |
| Apr 18, 9:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas | 34 min |
| Apr 18, 9:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Pinellas | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 22 min |
| Apr 18, 11:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 3:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 57 min | |
| Apr 19, 4:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 4:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Manatee | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 4:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 4:57 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 63 min | |
| Apr 19, 5:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 5:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hardee | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Polk | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 5:58 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Polk | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:06 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 39 min | |
| Apr 19, 6:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hardee | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 6:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 7:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Highlands | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 7:57 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Hardee, Highlands | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Highlands | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 10:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Charlotte | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 2:22 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | TBW | Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota | 30 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Highlands | 27 min |
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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.