Storm report for 6/27 in Treasure Island. Strong thunderstorms swept from East to West across the state colliding with the West coast seabreeze close to shore and creating large thunderstorms in the afternoon, a classic summertime pattern. Nothing to severe to report however.

Notable Observations as the storm passed overhead:

• 3:23pm - 36mph wind gust
• 2.30in/hr peak rainfall rate
• 0.20in total rainfall
• Storm blocked sunlight and pushed solar radiation to a low of 6w/sqm at 3:30pm.

Other reports from the NWS:

• 3:30 thru 3:40pm - Waterspout sightings just offshore of Englewood Boca Grande (South Sarasota County)

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Well it finally gave a good rain storm when I was home to watch the fun! I almost missed this one too as it formed over Downtown St. Petersburg when the Gulf sea breeze collided with an outflow boundry from a storm in Hardee County within just a few minutes. I stood outside as the storm approached. First the outflow boundry passed overhead once again bringing a wind shift and cooler air, though this did not feel nearly as strong as the one mentioned from a few days ago. Within just a few minutes behind it came the storm. Peak wind speed of 29mph was reached just after the rain core struck, bringing 7.29 in/hr rainfall rates. No records were set today but the storm did come just a tad shy of the National Weather Service‘s severe storm reporting criteria. The storm brought a total of 1.60 inches of rain in less than 1 hour, just 0.40 inches shy of flash flood criteria.

Below is a brief list of interesting observations noted during today‘s storm:

• Wind shifted tward the storm at 10:00pm, rain began just after 11:00pm.
• Peak Wind Gust - 29mph at 11:06pm
• Peak Rainfall Rate - 7.29 in/hr at 11:10pm
• Total Rain from storm - 1.60 inches (occurred in span of less than 60 minutes)
• Temperature drop of 8 degrees in 30 minutes from rain. (82 F to 74 F /10:50p - 11:20p)

No spotter reports or other interesting weather phenomenon to report from the National Weather Service for today.>

Today has set the year to date high temperature for 2007. This record is likely to be exceeded many times as the year progresses. 89.0 degrees F at 4:41pm >

Finally some action in Treasure Island as a strong thunderstorm passed overhead at 3:00am. Additionally a fairly strong outflow boundry passed by TI at 7:30pm from an unrelated storm that was very cool to experience. Other parts of Florida experienced more severe weather as I noted at least 2 tornado warnings issued for other counties [read more...]

For two days in a row now I have tied my all time high dew point set at 78 degrees. Additionally today‘s heat index has hit this year‘s high of 96.4 degrees set at 5:53pm. Most thunderstorm activity today focused on the east coast along the seabreeze collision and again Treasure Island has no rain.

Today tied my all time dew point record set just 4 days ago and happened to be an extremely warm day overall. Low Cumulus clouds dominated the skies most of the day today and then high clouds from storm anvils provided overcast skies in the evening. Below is a brief list of observations for today: [read more...]

Quite an active day for the Tampa Bay area today as the sea breeze collision occured on the I-75 corridor around 3pm. Multiple severe storm warnings were issued today for several bay area counties, numerous hail and high wind reports, some storm damage and waterspout sightings make the list today. On another note, I happened [read more...]

Everywhere else but here once again had interesting weather while Treasure Island gets nothing. After reading through today‘s local storm report provided by the NWS I have found numerous reports of half inch to 3/4 inch hail. However there was one report of a Tree down in Lakeland causing extensive damage to a single wide [read more...]

An area of disturbed weather in the Gulf, affecting most of Florida on 6/6/07 has led to a record being set here in Treasure Island. Additionally the rest of the state has had some sort of strong weather event occur today while Pinellas County, more specifically Treasure Island has once again remained bone dry. With [read more...]