Florida, 2005

Damaging Wind in Florida, November 29, 2005

November 29, 2005 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$20,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

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 Nov 29, 2:30 AM EST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 29, 2:30 AM EST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
230 AM EST TUE NOV 29 2005

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-WEDNESDAY)...BUSY SKIES OVERNIGHT. RAIN
ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE AT LEAST UNTIL THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. A
STRONG PRE-FRONTAL LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS SLOWLY
MOVING INTO THE EASTERN GULF AND WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF WEATHER
THROUGH THE MORNING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND SOME HEAVY DOWNPOURS
ARE LIKELY WITH THIS FEATURE. POPS HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED WITH THE
LATEST HPC QPF. ONLY CHANGES TO THE FORECAST ARE A SLIGHT INCREASE
IN LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON CLOUD COVER AND POPS TO BETTER
MATCH SURROUNDING CWAS. POPS ARE BASICALLY 70 PERCENT THROUGH THE
DAY EVERYWHERE AND SLIGHTLY HIGHER OVER THE NORTHERN COUNTIES IN THE
AFTERNOON. A SECOND ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING RIGHT ALONG THE
MAIN FRONTAL BOUNDARY...BUT AT THIS MOMENT IT SEEMS THAT THE DYNAMIC
LIFTING ASSOCIATED WITH IT WILL REMAIN WELL NORTH OF THE AREA.
SPECIAL CONCERN AT THIS TIME ARE LEVY AND MAYBE CITRUS COUNTIES
WHICH COULD EXPERIENCE SOME NEAR SEVERE CELLS THROUGH THE DAY. OTHER
CONCERNS ARE POTENTIAL FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING...AND
HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS OVER MAJOR HIGHWAYS AND STREETS.

PREVIOUS FORECAST INCLUDED EXTENDED POPS AND MEASURABLE QPF INTO
WEDNESDAY...WHICH AT THIS TIME SEEMS REASONABLE AS MODEL FORECAST
XSEC/SOUND SUGGESTS ENOUGH LOW LEVEL REMNANT MOISTURE BEHIND THE
FRONT FOR AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR TWO TO FORM. SKIES BEGIN CLEARING
OUT BY WEDNESDAY EVENING WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING BEHIND THE
FRONT AND OVER THE SE US. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP ON WEDNESDAY WITH
BOTH AFTERNOON MAX AND MORNING LOWS SHOWING A 24 HOUR DEGREE
DIFFERENCE OF 8 TO 10 DEGREES. FOR THURSDAY EXPECT A BEAUTIFUL DAY
UNDER MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND COOLING TEMPERATURES.

&&

.LONG TERM (WED NIGHT-MON)...ZONAL FLOW ALOFT ALONG WITH SURFACE
HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE LOWER TN/MS VALLEYS WILL RESULT IN
COOL DRY WEATHER WITH A CLEAR NIGHT AND A MOSTLY SUNNY DAY EXPECTED
THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. THE DRY AIR MASS COMBINED WITH A LIGHT
NORTHERLY DRAINAGE FLOW WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO FALL INTO THE UPPER 30S
ACROSS THE FAR NORTH...40S CENTRAL ZONES...AND LOWER 50S FAR SOUTH
BY EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. AFTER A COOL START FRIDAY MORNING AMPLE
SUNSHINE IS EXPECTED WITH TEMPS REBOUNDING INTO THE UPPER 60S AND
LOWER 70S.

OVER THE UPCOMING WEEKEND THE SURFACE HIGH WILL MOVE OFF THE MID
ATLANTIC COAST. THIS WILL SET UP A LIGHT EAST TO SOUTHEAST WIND FLOW
ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SLOW INCREASE IN
MOISTURE AND MODERATING TEMPERATURES UNDER PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. THE
MEX GUIDANCE THIS MORNING INSISTS ON RATHER COOL LOW TEMPS FOR
SATURDAY MORNING...BUT GIVEN THE ZONAL FLOW ALOFT COMBINED WITH THE
DEVELOPING EASTERLY FLOW I PREFER TO KEEP TEMPS NEAR CLIMO WITH LOWS
FALLING INTO THE UPPER 40S NORTH AND AND LOWER 50S ELSEWHERE. DURING
SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY ANOTHER SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL PUSH ANOTHER COLD FRONT OUR WAY...WITH THE FRONT
MOVING INTO MY NORTHERN ZONES BY EARLY MONDAY MORNING...THEN THROUGH
THE REMAINDER OF THE FA MONDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THE GFS SHOWS A
NARROW RIBBON OF MOISTURE WITH THIS FRONT...SO HAVE INTRODUCED SOME
LOW POPS (20%) FOR THE ENTIRE FA ON MONDAY AS THE FRONT MOVES
THROUGH. MEX GUIDANCE AGAIN SHOWS MUCH COOLER TEMPS IN THE WAKE OF
THIS FRONT WITH READINGS FALLING WELL BELOW SEASONAL LEVELS...BUT
BASED ON THE MEX PERFORMANCE (FLIP-FLOPPING) THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS
CONFIDENCE IN ITS OUTPUT AT THIS TIME IS RATHER LOW...SO HAVE KEEP
MIN TEMPS FOR TUESDAY MORNING ABOVE CURRENT MEX VALUES...AND WILL
HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE HOW THINGS PAN OUT AS THE WEEK CONTINUES.

&&

.MARINE...SMALL CRAFT EXERCISE CAUTION IN EFFECT FOR THE OUTER
WATERS. LATEST WAVEHEIGHT MODEL NUMBERS ARE NOT INDICATING SEAS
ABOVE 5 TO 6 FEET OFFSHORE...AND LATEST BUOY DATA STILL SHOWS
STRONGEST WINDS NEAR 15 KNOTS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE WEST FL WATERS THROUGH THE DAY AS THE MAIN
BOUNDARY OF THE COLD FRONT MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH THE EASTERN GULF.
SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. MARINERS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF ROUGH
SEAS AND GUSTY WINDS...ESPECIALLY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. WINDS
WILL INCREASE A LITTLE FURTHER BEHIND THE FRONT TO AROUND 20 KNOTS
BUT AN SCA IS NOT REQUIRED AT THIS TIME.

&&

.AVIATION...WIDESPREAD MVFR CONDITIONS WITH CIGS IN THE 4-6KFT RANGE
AND VISIBILITIES OF 3-5 MILES IN SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED AT ALL
TERMINAL SITES...WITH ISOLATED IFR CONDITIONS WITH BROKEN CIGS AOB
1000 FEET ALONG WITH VISIBILITIES OF 1-2 MILES IN HEAVIER SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AFTER SUNRISE AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE
DAY.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...RH IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS
THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. SOME AREAS MAY BRIEFLY DROP TO NEAR 35
PERCENT ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...BUT MOST LIKELY FOR JUST A COUPLE
OF HOURS IN THE AFTERNOON.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
TPA  79  58  70  48  /  80  30   0   0
FMY  82  64  76  50  /  70  50  20   0
GIF  80  58  71  48  /  70  30   0   0
SRQ  80  59  71  51  /  80  40   0   0
BKV  79  52  68  36  /  80  30   0   0

&&

.TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
  SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION BONITA BEACH TO SUWANNEE
   RIVER OUT 20 TO 60 NM.

&&

SHORT TERM/MARINE....REYNES
LONG TERM/AVIATION...MCMICHAEL
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 29, 5:10 AM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
510 AM EST TUE NOV 29 2005

FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-291615-
LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK-
MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE-
510 AM EST TUE NOV 29 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA AND WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE OVER THE WEST FL WATERS...REACHING THE COAST THROUGH THE
DAY. MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS IS THE POTENTIAL FOR URBAN AND
SMALL STREAM FLOODING...FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING...GUSTY
WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. MOTORISTS TRAVELING
DURING MORNING RUSH HOURS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AS HAZARDOUS
DRIVING CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE.

AS THE MAIN BOUNDARY OF THE COLD FRONT APPROACHES...THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE AND SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN COUNTIES.

CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN IMPROVING LATER TONIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE
BUILDS BEHIND THE FRONT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLOWLY RETURN TO THE REGION AS COLD DRY AIR
BEHIND THE FRONT MOVES OVER THE SE US...WHICH WILL BRING CLEARING
SKIES AND COOL BREEZES THROUGH SUNDAY. ANOTHER FRONT WILL APPROACH
THE AREA ON MONDAY WHICH WILL INCREASE CHANCES OF SHOWERS BY
MONDAY AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUIRED AT THIS TIME...

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 29, 6:21 AM EST, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
621 AM EST TUE NOV 29 2005

FLZ042-048-291215-
HERNANDO-CITRUS-
621 AM EST TUE NOV 29 2005

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CITRUS AND HERNANDO COUNTIES...

THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...WILL AFFECT CITRUS AND
HERNANDO COUNTIES INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HOMOSASSA...INVERNESS...
BAYPORT AND BROOKSVILLE...UNTIL 715 AM EST. GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50
MPH MAY CAUSE LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE
LIMBS AND WIRES IS POSSIBLE. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS
EXPECTED. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW SPOT...AWAY FROM
TALL OBJECTS.

PRC

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1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Hernando

When
November 29, 7:05 AM EST to 7:15 AM EST
Where
Hernando County, 6 mi W of Brooksville
Measured
45 kt (52 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$20,000
Reported by
BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates
28.550, -82.483

Thunderstorms moved through Brooksville and caused minor damage to several mobile homes along Grant Street and Country Club Drive. The roof of one older mobile home was peeled back.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind
Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5481074.