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From: Thomas Giella KN4LF (kn4lf{at}tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 19:56:13 EDT
Record cold descended on Florida early this Monday morning 04/25/05. I had a
minimum temperature of 42.4 deg. here in suburban SW Plant City 25 miles
east of Tampa. My private weather station in East Nobleton in Sumter County
saw 31.8 deg. I also have a private weather station in Venus down in
southern Highlands County that also saw 32 deg. A Coop station called
Archbold nearby Venus also saw 32 deg. I've been keeping track of weather
here in Florida since 1965 and have never seen it so cold so late in the
season. It must be global cooling!
Central Florida was also struck by an F0-1 tornado on Saturday 04/23/05. The
mesocyclone and funnel cloud passed right over my location but oddly I had
only a few rumbles of thunder and one close bang lightning wise. The funnel
cloud touched down as a tornado between Lakeland and Mulberry a short time
later.
In 32 years of weather forecasting experience I've rarely been surprised by
weather goings on but this tornadic thunderstorm did surprise me. I saw no
severe weather parameters in my analysis prior to this storm that would have
supported a mesocyclone and tornado, even helicity values were low. Strange
days indeed.
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
700 PM EDT MON APR 25 2005
RECORD COLD AIRMASS DEPARTING AS FAST AS IT ARRIVED...
MUCH COLDER THAN NORMAL AIR FLOWED INTO WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA ON THE HEELS OF THE STRONG COLD FRONT THAT MOVED THROUGH THE
STATE SATURDAY NIGHT. MANY RECORDS WERE TIED OR BROKEN ON SUNDAY
AND MONDAY.
THIS COLD AIR WILL DEPART QUICKLY...AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE BACK TO
NEAR NORMAL LEVELS BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
SUNDAY AND MONDAY FEATURED SOME RECORD LOW MAX TEMPERATURES...THAT
IS...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS LOWER THAN ANY PREVIOUS HIGH
TEMPERATURE FOR THAT DATE. IN ADDITION...SEVERAL OVERNIGHT LOW
TEMPERATURES WERE TIED OR BROKEN EARLY THIS MORNING.
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF LOCAL AREA RECORDS THAT WERE TIED OR
BROKEN DURING THIS EVENT...
SUNDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 24TH 2005 RECORD LOW MAX TEMPERATURES
MAX PREVIOUS
TEMPERATURE RECORD / YEAR
TAMPA INTL (TPA) 69 72 / 1983
ST PETE/ALBERT WHITTED (SPG) 69 73 / 1983
SARASOTA-BRADENTON (SRQ) 70 74 / 1977
LAKELAND LINDER (LAL) 69 75 / 1983
FORT MYERS (FMY) 75 76 / 1983
MONDAY MORNING APRIL 25TH 2005 RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES
MIN PREVIOUS
TEMPERATURE RECORD / YEAR
TAMPA INTL (TPA) 52 52 / 1903 (TIED)
ST PETE/ALBERT WHITTED (SPG) 59 59 / 1995 (TIED)
LAKELAND LINDER (LAL) 46 48 / 1986
FORT MYERS (FMY) 51 53 / 1986
MONDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 25TH 2005 RECORD LOW MAX TEMPERATURES
MAX PREVIOUS
TEMPERATURE RECORD / YEAR
SARASOTA-BRADENTON (SRQ) 72 75 / 1979
LAKELAND LINDER (LAL) 74 75 / 1983
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JILLSON
Take Care,
Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Retired Space & Atmospheric Weather Forecaster
Plant City, FL, USA
kn4lf{at}arrl.net
SWFWMD Rainfall Observer #574
NWS Tampa Bay, FL SKYWARN Observer #HIL-249
Plant City, FL NWS CWOP Weather Station #AR692 Live Data:
http://www.kn4lf.com/index.html
Plant City, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive:
http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf22.htm
Florida Daily Weather Discussion: http://www.kn4lf.com/flwx1.htm
Global Warming Refuted: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf42.htm
Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive:
http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5.htm
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