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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

January 10, 2022Polk County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 10, 2022, 4:21 PM EST for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 10, 2022, 4:21 PM EST (21:21 UTC)
Expired
Jan 10, 2022, 4:45 PM EST
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Polk County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 12:00Z on 2022-01-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 287 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 12:00Z on 2022-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 10, 4:35 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryTBW47 hr
Jan 10, 3:10 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementTBWLee35 min
Jan 10, 3:44 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk31 min
Jan 10, 4:09 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk36 min
Jan 10, 4:42 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk33 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.