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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

June 19, 2026Highlands County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2026, 5:36 PM EDT for Highlands County, Florida. It was in force for 24 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
Jun 19, 2026, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Highlands County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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 2026-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2196 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 2026-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 3:26 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryTBWCharlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 8 more16 hr
Jun 19, 3:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWPolk41 min
Jun 19, 4:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWOsceola41 min
Jun 19, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHighlands56 min
Jun 19, 5:45 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBWHighlands75 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.