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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 5, 200739 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this freeze watch at Apr 5, 2007, 5:07 AM CDT for 39 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Apr 7, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 2007, 5:07 AM CDT (10:07 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 7, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 6, 2007, 9:52 PM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

All 39 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Apr 4, 6:32 PM CDT, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 6:32 PM CDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 4, 3:00 PM CDT, 14 hours 7 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
Apr 5, 5:07 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	BMX	Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah and 3 more	24 hr
Apr 5, 1:59 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	BMX	Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 15 more	43 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Alabama, 2007 Every freeze watch in 2007

Sources

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