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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

May 10, 2025Hardee County, Polk County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2025, 1:46 PM EDT for Hardee County, Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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
May 10, 2025, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2025, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Hardee County, FL, Polk County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2025-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 316 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2025-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 8:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHighlands36 min
May 10, 6:23 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW52 min
May 10, 7:21 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW39 min
May 10, 8:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWLevy29 min
May 10, 8:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWLevy47 min
May 10, 12:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHardee29 min
May 10, 1:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHillsborough23 min
May 10, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHardee45 min
May 10, 1:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHillsborough, Polk51 min
May 10, 2:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWDeSoto, Hardee44 min
May 10, 2:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHighlands47 min
May 10, 3:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk49 min
May 10, 4:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHernando45 min
May 10, 4:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW53 min

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.