Scattered thunderstorms developed along the west coast sea breeze front.
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The episode as NWS TBW wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms developed along the west coast sea breeze front.
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 Jul 24, 2:30 AM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 330 AM EDT TUE JUL 24 2007 .SHORT TERM (TODAY - THURSDAY)...U/L BLOCKING PATTERN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE U.S. THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS WITH A RIDGE TO THE WEST AND A TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN U.S. W/V IMAGERY SHOWS SOUTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO AND FLORIDA ADVECTING DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE OVER THE REGION. U/L DIFLUENCE OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ALONG WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL CONTINUE TO GENERATE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA...ALONG WITH THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR EACH DAY WHICH COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...ESPECIALLY URBAN AREAS. CANT RULE OUT A FEW WATERSPOUTS AS NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES COMBINED WITH VEERING WINDS WITH HEIGHT WILL CREATE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR SPIN UPS TO DEVELOP ON THE BOUNDARIES. U/L RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC WILL BUILD OVER THE FLORIDA PENINSULA THURSDAY AS THE TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN U.S. LIFTS NORTH OF THE AREA. BUILDING HEIGHTS OVER THE FA WILL ALLOW DAYTIME TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE CLIMATIC NORMALS. AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FA IN AREA OF DEEPEST MOISTURE THURSDAY AFTERNOON...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ELSEWHERE. .LONG TERM (THURSDAY NIGHT - MONDAY)...END OF THE WEEK FEATURES A FLAT 500 MB RIDGE ACROSS THE STATE WHICH IS DIRTIED BY WEAK DISTURBANCES RIDING THROUGH IT. THE RIDGE WEAKENS AND SINKS A LITTLE SOUTH OVER THE WEEKEND AS THE PESKY NORTHEAST U.S. TROUGH CONTINUES. THERE ARE SOME MODEL DIFFERENCES THIS MORNING...PARTICULARLY ON DAYS 6 AND 7 (SUNDAY/MONDAY) AS THE LATEST NOGAPS AND CANADIAN GEM ARE A BIT MORE ROBUST WITH ENERGY DROPPING INTO THE BASE OF THE NORTHEAST U.S. TROUGH. SHOULD THIS OCCUR...SURFACE TROUGHING WOULD EDGE A BIT FARTHER SOUTH AND ALLOW A BIT MORE LOW LEVEL SOUTHWEST FLOW TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE PENINSULA WHICH WOULD FAVOR AN EARLY MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON TIMING OF ACTIVITY. THE NOGAPS WAS PARTICULARLY GENEROUS WITH PRECIPITATION. HOWEVER...GIVEN UNCERTAINTY THIS FAR OUT WILL NOT MAKE ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES JUST YET...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH TRENDS. FOR THE SENSIBLE WEATHER...EXPECT GENERALLY LIGHT WINDS WITH NEAR SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES AND RAIN CHANCES. WILL RAMP UP FRIDAY TO 60 PERCENT GIVEN ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND SOME SYNOPTIC FORCING...THEN TAIL BACK TO MORE TYPICAL 50 DAY/30 EVENING PERCENTAGES OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. BOUNDARY COLLISIONS MAY WELL DETERMINE WHERE RAINS FALL AS GULF COAST SEA BREEZE WILL NOT DOMINATE...AT LEAST INTO THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...A CONTINUED TRICKY FORECAST ONCE AGAIN TODAY. HOWEVER...MIGHT BE ABLE TO HANG HAT ON DEVELOPING SOUTH/SOUTHWEST FLOW JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE EARLY THIS MORNING...WHICH MAY BE ENOUGH TO GET SOME ACTIVITY INTO KSRQ/KFMY BEFORE SUNRISE. THEREAFTER...HAVE BROUGHT MVFR CEILINGS/IFR VISIBILITY IN SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EVERYWHERE BETWEEN 14Z AND 21Z...WITH A GRADUAL TAIL-OFF TOWARD EVENING LEAVING DEBRIS RAIN AND MVFR TO VFR CLOUDINESS THEREAFTER. GFS RATHER BOLD WITH DEEP LAYER MOISTURE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TERMINALS...SO HAVE ADDED PROB30 MVFR VISIBILITY/CEILING AFTER 00Z TO ACCOUNT FOR POSSIBILITY. && .MARINE...WINDS WILL BE LESS THAN 15 KNOTS WITH SEAS LESS THAN 3 FEET THROUGH THE PERIOD. MAIN HAZARD WILL BE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY ROUGH SEAS AND GUSTY WINDS. && .FIRE WEATHER...NO FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS AT THIS TIME. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TPA 89 75 90 77 / 80 30 60 30 FMY 90 75 91 75 / 80 30 60 30 GIF 90 74 92 75 / 80 30 60 30 SRQ 89 74 90 75 / 80 30 60 30 BKV 89 70 91 72 / 70 30 60 30 SPG 88 78 89 79 / 80 30 60 30 && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GULF WATERS...NONE. && SHORT TERM/MARINE...EO LONG TERM/AVIATION...BSG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 501 AM EDT TUE JUL 24 2007 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-242115- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 501 AM EDT TUE JUL 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...ESPECIALLY URBAN AREAS. ...WATERSPOUT IMPACT... CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR A FEW WATERSPOUTS TODAY. COASTAL RESIDENTS SHOULD BE VIGILANT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH AFTERNOON WILL CONTAIN FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. A FEW PULSE SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED. OGLESBY
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 171 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:33 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A large and slow moving waterspout moved onshore near the airport before dissipating. No damage was reported.
A brief tornado touchdown was viewed by the public near the intersections of Price Blvd. and Raintree Blvd. Law enforcement found debris in the road from downed trees and road signs.
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