Severe Weather

Severe weather isn’t out of the ordinary for Tampa Bay. This page collects information from various sources to provide a “situational awareness” into the current weather conditions.

SKYWARN®

The purpose of the SKYWARN® program in Pinellas County Florida is to provide the National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office at Tampa Bay with timely and accurate reports of severe weather phenomena so that a timely warning can be issued to the public of dangerous weather conditions that include tornadoes, hail, flooding, and damaging thunderstorm winds.

Detailed information about SKYWARN® operations in Pinellas County can be found in the Pinellas County ACS/ARES® SKYWARN® Operations Plan and Standard Operating Procedures document.

Current Pinellas County Severe Weather Alerts


Please be sure to check the NWS Tampa Bay Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook daily. It’s an extremely useful to check daily. It presents a graphical view of likelihood of various types of severe weather. If you have a weather radio, Pinellas is covered by two transmitters and Pinellas has a “Specific Area Message Encoding” (SAME code) of 012103.

  • Largo Marine – 162.450 MHz
  • Tampa Bay – 162.550 MHz

National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center’s Latest Content

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MD 0270 CONCERNING SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH UNLIKELY FOR PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN FLORIDA PENINSULA Mesoscale Discussion 0270 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1255 PM CDT Mon Mar 18 2024 Areas affected...Portions of the central and eastern Florida Peninsula Concerning...Severe potential...Watch unlikely Valid 181755Z - 182030Z Probability of [...]
Mon, Mar 18, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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SPC 0600Z Day 2 Outlook Day 2 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1128 PM CDT Sun Mar 17 2024 Valid 191200Z - 201200Z ...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AREAS FORECAST... ...SUMMARY... The risk for severe thunderstorms appears negligible across the U.S., Tuesday through Tuesday night. ...Synopsis... Models continue to suggest that [...]
Mon, Mar 18, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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MD 0269 CONCERNING SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH UNLIKELY FOR PARTS OF THE LA GULF COAST Mesoscale Discussion 0269 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0754 AM CDT Sun Mar 17 2024 Areas affected...Parts of the LA Gulf Coast Concerning...Severe potential...Watch unlikely Valid 171254Z - 171500Z Probability of Watch Issuance...20 percent SUMMARY...Some [...]
Sun, Mar 17, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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MD 0268 CONCERNING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 56... FOR PARTS OF SOUTH TX Mesoscale Discussion 0268 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0324 AM CDT Sun Mar 17 2024 Areas affected...Parts of south TX Concerning...Severe Thunderstorm Watch 56... Valid 170824Z - 171000Z The severe weather threat for Severe Thunderstorm Watch [...]
Sun, Mar 17, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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SPC 0730Z Day 3 Outlook Day 3 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0214 AM CDT Sun Mar 17 2024 Valid 191200Z - 201200Z ...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AREAS FORECAST... ...SUMMARY... The risk for severe thunderstorms appears negligible across the U.S., Tuesday through Tuesday night. ...Discussion... It appears that a high [...]
Sun, Mar 17, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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WW 0056 Status Updates STATUS FOR WATCH 0056 HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED YET [...]
Sat, Mar 16, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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WW 56 SEVERE TSTM TX CW 170335Z - 171100Z URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 56 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1035 PM CDT Sat Mar 16 2024 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of southern [...]
Sat, Mar 16, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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MD 0267 CONCERNING SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH POSSIBLE FOR PARTS OF SOUTH TEXAS Mesoscale Discussion 0267 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0939 PM CDT Sat Mar 16 2024 Areas affected...parts of south Texas Concerning...Severe potential...Watch possible Valid 170239Z - 170445Z Probability of Watch Issuance...60 percent SUMMARY...Scattered storms are expected across [...]
Sat, Mar 16, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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Day 4-8 Outlook Day 4-8 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0350 AM CDT Sat Mar 16 2024 Valid 191200Z - 241200Z ...DISCUSSION... Medium-range models suggest that the remnant blocking regime, inland of the U.S. Pacific coast at the outset of the period, will break down by mid-week, [...]
Sat, Mar 16, 2024, Continue reading at the source
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MD 0266 CONCERNING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 55... FOR PARTS OF DEEP SOUTH TX Mesoscale Discussion 0266 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0211 AM CDT Sat Mar 16 2024 Areas affected...Parts of Deep South TX Concerning...Severe Thunderstorm Watch 55... Valid 160711Z - 160915Z The severe weather threat for Severe [...]
Sat, Mar 16, 2024, Continue reading at the source

National Hurricane Center’s Tropical Weather Outlook

Useful links

ACS – Pinellas County:  Pinellas County ACS Home Page
ACS/ARES® aresdb Database: http://www.aresdb.com/
Become a rain observer: http://www.cocoRahs.org
Become an ambassador: http://weather.gov/tampa/wrn
Emergency Managers Weather Information Network — https://www.weather.gov/emwin/ 
Facebook – NWS Tampa Bay: https://www.facebook.com/NWSTampaBay/
Hurricane Guide: http://www.pinellascounty.org/emergency/default.htm#hurricaneguide
Mike’s Weather Page: https://spaghettimodels.com/
National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio Station – WX4NHC:https://w4ehw.fiu.edu/
National Hurricane Center: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
National Weather Service: https://www.weather.gov/
NWS Radar: https://radar.weather.gov/
NWS Ruskin SKYWARN® Amateur Radio Station: https://www.weather.gov/tbw/wx4tor
NWS Ruskin SKYWARN® Page: http://weather.gov/tampa/skywarn
Sign up for weather alerts: http://AlertFlorida.com
Storm Prediction Center: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/
Tampa Bay Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook: https://www.weather.gov/tbw/ghwo
Training – Spotter Network: http://SpotterNetwork.org
Training – MetED: https://www.meted.ucar.edu/education_training/course/23
Tropical Cyclone Guidance Project: http://hurricanes.ral.ucar.edu/realtime/current/
Twitter – NWS Tampa Bay: https://twitter.com/nwstampabay
VoIP SKYWARN®/Hurricane Net: http://voipwx.net/
Weather Spotter’s Field Guide: https://go.usa.gov/xnDYC
Windy.com: https://www.windy.com/
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