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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

January 8, 202415 counties in Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this wind advisory at Jan 8, 2024, 3:00 PM EST for 15 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 9, 2024, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 8, 2024, 3:00 PM EST (20:00 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 9, 2024, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 9, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties Charlotte County, FL, Citrus County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Levy County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sarasota County, FL, Sumter County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 2024-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2024-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 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 wind 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 8, 8:40 AM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 8:40 AM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 4:25 AM ESTCoastal Flood WatchTBWCharlotte, Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lee, Levy and 4 more16 hr
Jan 8, 3:00 PM ESTGale WarningTBW28 hr
Jan 8, 3:00 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryTBW10 hr
Jan 8, 3:37 PM ESTCoastal Flood WarningTBWCitrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Levy, Manatee, Pasco and 2 more39 hr

Nearby

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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.