Alert archive / Georgia / Freeze Watches in 2006
Freeze Watch 2, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this freeze watch at Mar 25, 2006, 8:53 PM EST for 76 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 27, 2006, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2006, 8:53 PM EST (01:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2006, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2006, 3:14 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
All 76 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Mar 25, 8:45 PM EST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 8:45 PM EST, 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 845 PM EST SAT MAR 25 2006 .UPDATE... HAVE DECIDED...BASED ON RUC AND NAM SFC TEMPS...TO GO AHEAD AND EXTEND THE FREEZE WARNING TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE CWA. BOTH THE RUC AND NAM12 SHOW THE 31F LINE DOWN TO NEAR THE FL BORDER BETWEEN 09Z-13Z. GIVEN THAT MANY OF THESE AREAS WERE AT OR BELOW 32 THIS MORNING...FELT IT BEST TO JUST GO AHEAD AND COVER THE ENTIRE CWA WITH THE FREEZE WARNING. GRANTED...LOCATIONS LIKE CSG...VDI AND OTHER AIRPORT LOCATIONS WILL LIKELY STAY IN THE 33-34 DEGREE RANGE...BUT SHELTERED LOCATIONS WILL DROP BELOW 32. IN THE NORTH...A HARD FREEZE IS LIKELY AT MANY LOCATIONS WITH LOWS DROPPING INTO THE 20S AT SHELTERED LOCATIONS. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE ATL HOLD AT 33 OR SO...BUT THAT IS USUALLY AN ANOMALY ANYWAY. LOWERED MAX TEMPS FOR SUN JUST A COUPLE OF DEGREES BASED ON LATEST MAV/GFS ANALYSIS AS WELL. COLD ADVECTION WILL HOLD THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF SUN AT LEAST. IN ADDITION...WITH THE COLD SFC HIGH PRETTY MUCH CENTERED RIGHT OVER THE AREA MON MORNING...WOULD EXPECT TEMPS NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING AGAIN...ESPECIALLY IN EASTERN AREAS. GUIDANCE SHOWS LOWS ONCE AGAIN IN THE 29-32 DEGREE RANGE BY 09Z-13Z MON MORNING. THUS...HAVE ISSUED A FREEZE WATCH FOR MON MORNING FOR ALL EXCEPT THE EXTREME SOUTH/SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE CWA. IN THE EXTENDED...LATEST GFS SHOWS A COMPLETE LACK OF INSTABILITY FOR THU...SO HAVE REMOVED THE MENTION OF TSRA FOR THIS PERIOD. ON THE OTHER HAND...INSTABILITY IS INDICATED FOR FRI-SAT...WITH DEWPOINTS CREEPING UP TOWARD 60 IN THE SOUTHERN AREAS...LIS IN THE 0 TO -1 RANGE...AND AT LEAST SOME SEMBLANCE OF A FRONT MOVING INTO THE AREA...HAVE RETAINED TSRA FOR FRI AND ADDED TSRA FOR SAT. && .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT) WINTER LIKE PATTERN WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY...THEN A MORE SPRING LIKE PATTERN EVOLVES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE AREA THROUGH THE SHORT TERM WITH NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. COLD ADVECTION WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH MOST OF THE AREA WELL BELOW ZERO AT 850MB AND CONTINUING NW-N SFC WINDS AT 5-10KTS. COLD ADVECTION WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY PART OF SUN. BY MON...THE LARGE UPPER LOW SHIFTS EAST AND THE AREA COMES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A SHORT WAVE RIDGE. MEANWHILE...A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL TAKE SHAPE IN THE SOUTHWEST. THE COLD SFC HIGH WHICH HAS DOMINATED THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS WILL FINALLY SHIFT EAST. THIS WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO WARM BACK TO NEAR NORMAL LEVELS BY MON AFTERNOON. .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY) A FAST MOVING SHORT WAVE WILL PASS BY TO THE NE OF THE AREA EARLY TUE. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL ACCOMPANY THIS SYSTEM AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA AT THE SAME TIME...THEN STALL ACROSS S GA AS UPPER FLOW BECOMES ZONAL AND OLD CANADIAN SFC HIGH MOVES OFF EAST COAST OF FL. VERY LIMITED LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL PREVENT MUCH IN THE WAY OF SHRA ACTIVITY WITH THIS SYSTEM. SLIGHT CHANCE TO LOW POPS FOR THE TUE MORN LOOK GOOD. BEST CHANCE WILL BE IN THE NW EARLY IN THE DAY...WITH JUST ISOLD CHANCE IN THE SE PART OF THE CWA. MOISTURE WILL RETURN QUICKLY ON WED...HOWEVER...AS THE FRONT RETURNS NORTH AS A WARM FRONT. INSTABILITY STILL LACKING AND SFC MOISTURE STILL NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE...SO ONCE AGAIN WOULD EXPECT JUST SOME SHRA ACTIVITY AS THIS SYNOPTIC SITUATION OCCURS. THU LEAVES THE AREA BETWEEN SYSTEMS...BUT IN A WARM ADVECTION PATTERN. DYNAMICS ARE WEAK AND INSTABILITY STILL LACKING. HOWEVER...THE SFC MOISTURE SITUATION IS IMPROVING. WITH SW FLOW ALOFT AND AT THE SFC...ANY WEAK RIPPLES IN THE UPPER FLOW WOULD LIKE PRODUCE SOME SHRA BY THIS TIME. THE PERIOD FROM FRI-SUN APPEARS QUITE UNSETTLED AS A FRONT SLOWLY APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE NW AND CREEPS THROUGH THE CWA OVER THE WEEKEND. INSTABILITY APPEARS SUFFICIENT FOR TSRA ACTIVITY...BUT SEVERE DOES NOT APPEAR LIKELY AT THIS TIME. EACH RUN OF THE GFS PUSHES THE BEST DYNAMICS AND UPPER SUPPORT WITH THE MIDWEST UPPER LOW FURTHER NORTH AWAY FROM THE CWA. THIS WILL SLOW DOWN THE TIMING AND REDUCE THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE...BUT LEAVE THE AREA WITH A LONGER PERIOD OF UNSETTLED CONDITIONS AND AT LEAST CHANCE POPS AND TSRA. TEMPERATURES WILL BE AT OR ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS DURING MUCH OF THE EXTENDED. && .FIRE WEATHER... FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR SUN AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA. MIN RH VALUES MARGINAL NEAR THE 25 PERCENT LEVEL FOR 5-6 HOURS ACROSS CENTRAL GA...MAINLY SOUTH OF LGC-MCN-AGS LINE. WIND CONDITIONS WILL NOT BE MET. MID SHIFT MAY NEED TO UPDATE THIS TO A RED FLAG WARNING. IT ALSO APPEARS THAT A FIRE WEATHER WATCH WILL BE NEEDED FOR MON AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF THE CWA AS MUCH OF THE PERIOD FROM 18Z-23Z FEATURES MIN RH VALUES OF 25 PERCENT OR LESS ACROSS THE CWA. && .AVIATION... EXPECT LAYER OF BKN STRATO CU CLOUDS TO DISSIPATE SOME ACROSS TAF SITES BY SUNSET...WITH FEW TO SCT CLOUDS PREVAILING THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT...ESPECIALLY NORTH. MAY SEE SCT TO BKN STRATO CU ACROSS THE AREA AGAIN BY MIDDAY SUNDAY AS A WEAK SHORTWAVE SKIRTS ACROSS THE AREA. VSBY UNRESTRICTED AS LOWER LEVELS REMAIN DRY. BREEZY NORTHWEST WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO DIMINISH SOME AND LOSE GUSTINESS BY 00Z...BUT EXPECT SPEEDS GENERALLY IN THE 6 TO 10KT RANGE TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE NIGHT. LOOK FOR SPEEDS IN THE 10 TO 15KT RANGE SUNDAY. && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FREEZE WATCH FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR BALDWIN...BANKS...BARROW...BARTOW...BIBB...BLECKLEY...BUTTS...CARROLL...CATOOSA... CHATTOOGA...CHEROKEE...CLARKE...CLAYTON...COBB...COWETA...CRAWFORD...DADE... DAWSON...DEKALB...DOUGLAS...EMANUEL...FANNIN...FAYETTE...FLOYD...FORSYTH... GILMER...GLASCOCK...GORDON...GREENE...GWINNETT...HALL...HANCOCK...HARALSON... HEARD...HENRY...HOUSTON...JACKSON...JASPER...JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...JONES...LAMAR... LAURENS...LUMPKIN...MADISON...MERIWETHER...MONROE...MORGAN...MURRAY...NEWTON... NORTH FULTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE...PAULDING...PEACH...PICKENS...PIKE...POLK... PUTNAM...ROCKDALE...SOUTH FULTON...SPALDING...TALIAFERRO...TOWNS...TREUTLEN... TROUP...TWIGGS...UNION...UPSON...WALKER...WALTON...WARREN...WASHINGTON...WHITE... WHITFIELD...WILKES...WILKINSON. FREEZE WARNING FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST SUNDAY FOR BALDWIN...BANKS... BARROW...BARTOW...BIBB...BLECKLEY...BUTTS...CARROLL...CATOOSA...CHATTAHOOCHEE... CHATTOOGA...CHEROKEE...CLARKE...CLAYTON...COBB...COWETA...CRAWFORD...CRISP... DADE...DAWSON...DEKALB...DODGE...DOOLY...DOUGLAS...EMANUEL...FANNIN...FAYETTE... FLOYD...FORSYTH...GILMER...GLASCOCK...GORDON...GREENE...GWINNETT...HALL... HANCOCK...HARALSON...HARRIS...HEARD...HENRY...HOUSTON...JACKSON...JASPER... JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...JONES...LAMAR...LAURENS...LUMPKIN...MACON...MADISON... MARION...MERIWETHER...MONROE...MONTGOMERY...MORGAN...MURRAY...MUSCOGEE... NEWTON...NORTH FULTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE...PAULDING...PEACH...PICKENS... PIKE...POLK...PULASKI...PUTNAM...ROCKDALE...SCHLEY...SOUTH FULTON...SPALDING... STEWART...SUMTER...TALBOT...TALIAFERRO...TAYLOR...TELFAIR...TOOMBS...TOWNS... TREUTLEN...TROUP...TWIGGS...UNION...UPSON...WALKER...WALTON...WARREN... WASHINGTON...WEBSTER...WHEELER...WHITE...WHITFIELD...WILCOX...WILKES... WILKINSON. FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING FOR BALDWIN...BIBB...BLECKLEY...CHATTAHOOCHEE...CRAWFORD...CRISP...DODGE... DOOLY...EMANUEL...GLASCOCK...HARRIS...HOUSTON...JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...JONES... LAMAR...LAURENS...MACON...MARION...MERIWETHER...MONROE...MONTGOMERY...MUSCOGEE... PEACH...PIKE...PULASKI...SCHLEY...STEWART...SUMTER...TALBOT...TAYLOR...TELFAIR... TOOMBS...TREUTLEN...TROUP...TWIGGS...UPSON...WASHINGTON...WEBSTER...WHEELER... WILCOX...WILKINSON. && 19/49
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 3:25 PM EST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 3:14 AM EST | Freeze Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 70 more | 29 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:14 PM EST | Frost Advisory | FFC | Chattahoochee, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Harris, Macon and 14 more | 18 hr |
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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.