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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Huntsville, AL

October 27, 200811 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this freeze warning at Oct 27, 2008, 2:45 PM CDT for 11 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It took effect at Oct 28, 2008, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 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
Oct 27, 2008, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 28, 2008, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 28, 2008, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL

Counties Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Franklin County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 258 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2008-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2008-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -194 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 3:52 AM CDTRed Flag WarningHUNColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more14 hr
Oct 27, 2:45 PM CDTFreeze WarningHUNColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more42 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Alabama, 2008Freeze Warnings in Tennessee, 2008Every freeze warning in 2008

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.