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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 2026, 11:38 PM EDT for Citrus County, Sumter County, Florida. It was in force for 112 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 23, 2026, 11:38 PM EDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2026, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Citrus County, FL, Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2005 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at May 23, 7:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 7:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 23, 9:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Citrus | 118 min |
| May 23, 9:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Sumter | 80 min |
| May 23, 9:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Citrus, Hernando | 89 min |
| May 23, 10:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Sumter | 102 min |
| May 23, 11:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Pinellas | 91 min |
| May 24, 1:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Pasco | 92 min |
| May 24, 1:17 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Pinellas | 73 min |
| May 24, 2:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Pasco | 94 min |
| May 24, 4:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Lee | 2 hr |
| May 24, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Charlotte | 38 min |
| May 24, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 52 min | |
| May 24, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Pasco | 45 min |
| May 24, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco, Polk, Sumter | 18 min |
| May 24, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Sumter | 32 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.