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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 22, 2023Highlands County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2023, 3:08 PM EDT for Highlands County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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: Jun 22, 2023, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2023, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Highlands County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 2:33 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:33 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tampa Bay Area Ruskin FL
148 PM EDT Thu Jun 22 2023

FLZ052-251-221815-
Polk FL-Inland Hillsborough FL-
148 PM EDT Thu Jun 22 2023

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Polk
and northeastern Hillsborough Counties through 215 PM EDT...

At 147 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Medulla, or near Lakeland, moving northeast at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Lakeland, Plant City, Winter Haven, Haines City, Bartow, Auburndale,
Fussels Corner, Combee Settlement, Lakeland Linder Airport, Medulla,
Jan Phyl Village, Lake Alfred, Mulberry, Eagle Lake, Lake Hamilton,
Homeland, Winter Haven Airport, Wahneta, Winston, and Willow Oak.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 2779 8183 2789 8216 2820 8210 2808 8162
TIME...MOT...LOC 1747Z 195DEG 24KT 2795 8196

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

TBW

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tampa Bay Area Ruskin FL
151 PM EDT Thu Jun 22 2023

FLZ052-056-057-221815-
Highlands FL-Polk FL-Hardee FL-
151 PM EDT Thu Jun 22 2023

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Highlands, Hardee and south central Polk Counties through 215 PM
EDT...

At 150 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Wauchula, moving northeast at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Sebring, Avon Park, Wauchula, Sweetwater, Fort Meade, Bowling Green,
Zolfo Springs, Avon Park Executive Airport, Crewsville, and Sebring
Shores.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 2734 8161 2734 8175 2740 8192 2776 8180
      2761 8138
TIME...MOT...LOC 1750Z 195DEG 24KT 2749 8175

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

TBW

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:17 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:45 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:59 PM EDT, 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
Jun 21, 8:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Lee	46 min
Jun 22, 4:50 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TBW	Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota	15 hr
Jun 22, 11:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Levy	4 hr
Jun 22, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Polk	27 min
Jun 22, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Hardee	24 min
Jun 22, 1:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Levy	4 hr
Jun 22, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Polk	45 min
Jun 22, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Hardee, Highlands, Polk	32 min
Jun 22, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	DeSoto	28 min
Jun 22, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Polk	15 min
Jun 22, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Highlands	46 min
Jun 22, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Sumter	31 min
Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Sumter	60 min
Jun 22, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Sumter	46 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.