Late afternoon thunderstorms developing along sea breeze boundaries produced localized gusty winds across Citrus County.
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Late afternoon thunderstorms developing along sea breeze boundaries produced localized gusty winds across Citrus County.
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 28, 1:44 PM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 244 PM EDT Sun Jul 28 2019 .SHORT TERM (Tonight-Monday)... Weak high pressure and ridging aloft will continue across the area through Monday. Winds will be light and variable after sunset this evening and becoming E/NE by morning. The light flow will allow for an early sea breeze to develop and turn winds back to the W/NW in the afternoon hours Monday. A few showers and storms will linger mainly inland and south this evening, but convection should dissipate before midnight. Will have clearing overnight, then showers and thunderstorms will build again Monday afternoon with the sea breeze. Lows tonight in the lower to mid 70s inland to the mid 70s to near 80 along the coast. Highs Monday will be in the upper 80s coastal to lower 90s inland. .LONG TERM (Monday night-Sunday)... Strong high pressure will remain in place across the Four-Corners region through the long term period. Downstream from this ridge weak mid level troughing will develop from the Great Lakes region south to the northern Gulf coast with a closed low pinching off over the north-central Gulf. This trough will remain north and west of the forecast area through the period as high pressure surface and aloft initially over the Atlantic and extending west- southwest across south Florida expands and builds north and west across the northern peninsula and into the northeast Gulf Tuesday through Sunday with a southeast wind flow regime expected across the forecast area. Similar to yesterday ample moisture (PW's in 1.7 to 2+ inch range) combined with daytime heating will support scattered to numerous (Pops 40-60 percent range) diurnal sea breeze driven showers and thunderstorms across the forecast area each day with the storms first developing over inland locations during the late morning and afternoon hours with the convection then moving toward the coast and exiting west into the Gulf waters during the late afternoon and evening hours. A weak and chaotic steering flow will support very slow moving storms which will favor locally heavy rainfall in some locations each day. Frequent lightning strikes and strong gusty winds will also accompany the storms. Temperatures will run a few degrees above normal with overnight lows in the lower to mid 70s with daytime highs in the lower 90s. && .AVIATION... The sea breeze is starting to develop and turn winds to the W/NW. Isolated to scattered showers and storms will start to develop over the next hour or so, with the highest chances at KLAL this afternoon. Winds become light and variable after sunset, with skies clearing out overnight. Winds return to the E/NE for later Monday morning, with the sea breeze starting to develop around 16z again, and a few storms possible with it. VFR conditions prevail, with MVFR to IFR in storms. && .MARINE... Light E/NE flow has established as high pressure continues to build across the waters. High pressure will remain across the area through the period then, with winds shifting a bit to the E/SE for early next week. Afternoon sea breezes will turn winds onshore each day. Isolated to scattered showers and storms will also be possible through the period. Winds and seas will be locally higher in the vicinity of these storms. && .FIRE WEATHER... No concerns. && .Preliminary Point Temps/PoPs... TPA 77 91 75 90 / 20 40 40 30 FMY 76 93 75 90 / 20 50 40 40 GIF 75 93 74 92 / 20 60 50 40 SRQ 76 91 74 90 / 20 40 30 30 BKV 72 92 71 91 / 30 40 40 30 SPG 79 90 76 90 / 20 30 30 30 && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. Gulf waters...None. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION/MARINE/FIRE WEATHER...24/Hubbard MID TERM/LONG TERM/DECISION SUPPORT...57/McMichael
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:26 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Citrus County Emergency Management reported a downed tree on a mobile home in the Singing Forest Mobile Home Park.
Citrus County Emergency Management reported some downed palm trees in Beverly Hills along with a damaged shed.
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