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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

July 25, 2026Citrus County, Sumter County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2026, 6:15 PM EDT for Citrus County, Sumter County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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: Jul 25, 2026, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

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 22:15 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 700 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 1:22 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	TBW	Citrus, Hernando, Levy, Sumter	18 hr
Jul 25, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Highlands	30 min
Jul 25, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Levy	36 min
Jul 25, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Manatee	42 min
Jul 25, 5:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Sumter	83 min
Jul 25, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Sumter	36 min
Jul 25, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Sarasota	40 min
Jul 25, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk	32 min
Jul 25, 6:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TBW	Hillsborough, Polk	82 min
Jul 25, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TBW	Polk	33 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.