Alert archive / Alabama / Freeze Warnings in 2007
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this freeze warning at Feb 15, 2007, 2:57 PM CST for 10 counties in Alabama; 5 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Feb 16, 2007, 2:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 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
- Feb 15, 2007, 2:57 PM CST (20:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2007, 2:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2007, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KMOB 152057 NPWMOB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 257 PM CST THU FEB 15 2007 ...A HARD FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR INTERIOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE EXCEPT FOR COASTAL SECTIONS... .VERY COLD HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE NORTHERN GULF TONIGHT LEAVING THE REGION UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN ARCTIC AIR MASS. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP BELOW FREEZING EARLY THIS EVENING THEN DROP INTO THE LOWER TO MID TWENTIES OVERNIGHT RESULTING IN A HARD FREEZE. TEMPERATURES WILL RISE ABOVE FREEZING BY MID MORNING ON FRIDAY. ALZ051>062-FLZ001-003-005-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-160500- /O.NEW.KMOB.FZ.W.0002.070216T0800Z-070216T1400Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA- INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BUTLER...LISMAN...SILAS...CHATOM... MILLRY...JACKSON...THOMASVILLE...GROVE HILL...CAMDEN... PINE HILL...HOMEWOOD...MONROEVILLE...EVERGREEN...GREENVILLE... LUVERNE...BRANTLEY...ATMORE...BREWTON...EAST BREWTON... ANDALUSIA...OPP...PRICHARD...SARALAND...BAY MINETTE...CENTURY... FLOMATON...MOLINO...JAY...CRESTVIEW...WAYNESBORO...RICHTON... BEAUMONT...NEW AUGUSTA...LEAKESVILLE...MCLAIN...WIGGINS... LUCEDALE 257 PM CST THU FEB 15 2007 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM CST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A HARD FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM CST FRIDAY. A HARD FREEZE WARNING MEANS TEMPERATURES BELOW 26 DEGREES FOR MORE THAN FIVE HOURS ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. MAKE SURE ALL PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN TODAY FOR THE ELDERLY...SENSITIVE VEGETATION AND PETS. OPEN THE FAUCET SLIGHTLY FOR A SMALL STREAM OF WATER OVERNIGHT IF YOU HAVE ANY EXTERIOR OPEN AIR PIPING. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KMOB 160449 NPWMOB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1045 PM CST THU FEB 15 2007 ...A HARD FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR INTERIOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE EXCEPT FOR COASTAL SECTIONS... .VERY COLD HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE NORTHERN GULF TONIGHT LEAVING THE REGION UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN ARCTIC AIR MASS. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP BELOW FREEZING EARLY THIS EVENING THEN DROP INTO THE LOWER TO MID TWENTIES OVERNIGHT RESULTING IN A HARD FREEZE. TEMPERATURES WILL RISE ABOVE FREEZING BY MID MORNING ON FRIDAY. ALZ051>062-FLZ001-003-005-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-161300- /O.NEW.KMOB.FZ.W.0002.070216T0800Z-070216T1400Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA- INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BUTLER...LISMAN...SILAS...CHATOM... MILLRY...JACKSON...THOMASVILLE...GROVE HILL...CAMDEN... PINE HILL...HOMEWOOD...MONROEVILLE...EVERGREEN...GREENVILLE... LUVERNE...BRANTLEY...ATMORE...BREWTON...EAST BREWTON... ANDALUSIA...OPP...PRICHARD...SARALAND...BAY MINETTE...CENTURY... FLOMATON...MOLINO...JAY...CRESTVIEW...WAYNESBORO...RICHTON... BEAUMONT...NEW AUGUSTA...LEAKESVILLE...MCLAIN...WIGGINS... LUCEDALE 1045 PM CST THU FEB 15 2007 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM CST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A HARD FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM CST FRIDAY. THIS WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10. AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10 TO ALONG AND SOUTH OF A JANICE...MISSISSIPPI TO GREEN BAY...ALABAMA LINE WILL FALL INTO THE 23 TO 25 DEGREE RANGE...WITH AREAS NORTH EXPECTED TO FALL IN THE LOWER 20S. A HARD FREEZE WARNING MEANS TEMPERATURES BELOW 26 DEGREES FOR MORE THAN FIVE HOURS ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. MAKE SURE ALL PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN TODAY FOR THE ELDERLY...SENSITIVE VEGETATION AND PETS. OPEN THE FAUCET SLIGHTLY FOR A SMALL STREAM OF WATER OVERNIGHT IF YOU HAVE ANY EXTERIOR OPEN AIR PIPING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2:50 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 22 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:50 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Walton | 27 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Alabama, 2007Freeze Warnings in Mississippi, 2007Freeze Warnings in Florida, 2007Every freeze warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.