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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this wind advisory at Jan 30, 2026, 11:35 AM EST for 15 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 31, 2026, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2026, 11:35 AM EST (16:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 31, 2026, 3:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2026, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Citrus County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Levy County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sarasota County, FL, Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 30, 6:43 AM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 6:43 AM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 9:33 PM EST | Frost Advisory | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Levy | 10 hr |
| Jan 30, 10:49 AM EST | Gale Warning | TBW | 47 hr | |
| Jan 30, 11:35 AM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | TBW | Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, Sarasota | 46 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:35 AM EST | Extreme Cold Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 6 more | 46 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:35 AM EST | Freeze Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 8 more | 46 hr |
Nearby
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.