1 waterspout, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 29, 1:55 PM EST, 3 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 255 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 2001 THIS AFTERNOONS MODEL ANALYSIS SUGGESTS THAT THE NGM IS HANDLING THE OVERALL SMALL SCALE FEATURES THE BEST COMPARED WITH THE AVIATION AND MESO-ETA MODELS. THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY...PRECIPITATION AND UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE FIELDS APPEAR TO BE IN-LINE WITH ACTUAL OBSERVED CONDITIONS. ALSO...PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS HAVE FAVORED THE NGM AS THE MODEL OF CHOICE HANDLING TROPICAL AIRMASS OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. FOR THIS EVENING...EXPECT THE GREATEST PRECIPITATION COVERAGE TO OCCUR FROM TAMPA NORTH TO LEVY COUNTY. HOWEVER...FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE AND AFTERNOON HEATING WILL ALLOW SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS TO ALSO DEVELOP FROM COASTAL MANATEE SOUTH TO LEE COUNTY. PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS EVENINGS CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL BE HEAVY RAIN. LOTS OF LOW-HANGING SCUD CLOUDS...FROM LOW BASE CONVECTION...WILL LIKELY TRIGGER MANY BOGUS FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTS. ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...THE NGM MAINTAINS THE SURFACE AND 700 MB HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE AXIS...EAST TO WEST...ACROSS NORTH FLORIDA. THUS TROPICAL SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE PENINSULA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. EXPECT MOVEMENT OF THE CONVECTION TO BECOME ORIENTED MORE SOUTH TO NORTH IN CONCERT WITH THE 500/700 MB STEERING FLOW BY SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUS TRAINING ECHOES MAY BECOME A PROBLEM. AVIATION MODEL HINTS TO LOWER PRECIPITABLE WATER LEVELS MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH ANOTHER WAVE INCREASING LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE ...MAINLY SOUTH FLORIDA...WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. TPA 73/90/74/90 6545 FMY 73/89/74/90 4434 .TBW...NONE. ZALESKI
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:57 UTC.
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
A Skywarn Spotter reported a waterspout near Amber Jack Drive off Hernando Beach.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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