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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 22, 200614 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this freeze warning at Mar 22, 2006, 2:40 PM CST for 14 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Mar 23, 2006, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 15 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2006, 2:40 PM CST (20:40 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 23, 2006, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 23, 2006, 3:11 PM CST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

Counties Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion County, AL, Randolph County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Mar 21, 3:27 PM CST, 23 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 3:27 PM CST, 23 hours 13 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 2:40 PM CST	Freeze Watch	BMX	Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 18 more	25 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Alabama, 2006 Every freeze warning in 2006

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.