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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2026, 2:57 PM EDT for Polk County, Sumter County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 20, 2026, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Polk County, FL, Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Pasco | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 9:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Levy | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 10:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Osceola | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 11:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 57 min | |
| Aug 19, 11:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hernando, Pasco | 40 min |
| Aug 20, 12:09 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | TBW | Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 9 more | 19 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Hernando | 77 min |
| Aug 20, 12:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Pasco | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 12:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | Hernando, Pasco, Pinellas | 72 min |
| Aug 20, 12:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 56 min | |
| Aug 20, 1:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Pinellas | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 12:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Sumter | 22 min |
| Aug 20, 12:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Sumter | 23 min |
| Aug 20, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Sumter | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 39 min |
| Aug 20, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 46 min |
| Aug 20, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Levy | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Levy | 50 min |
| Aug 20, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Highlands | 46 min |
| Aug 20, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Glades | 52 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.