Alert archive / Florida / Freeze Warnings in 2008
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this freeze warning at Jan 3, 2008, 3:50 AM EST for Sumter County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 4, 2008, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 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
- Jan 3, 2008, 3:50 AM EST (08:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2008, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2008, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
County Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -252 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 warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Jan 3, 3:05 AM EST, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 3:05 AM EST, 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 2, 5:03 AM EST, 22 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 503 AM EST WED JAN 2 2008 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-022215- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 503 AM EST WED JAN 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...COASTAL FLOOD IMPACT... PERSISTENT STRONG NORTH TO NORTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD 4 TO 6 FOOT WAVES THAT WILL IMPACT COASTAL ZONES FROM PINELLAS COUNTY SOUTHWARD. THESE WAVES WILL LEAD TO MINOR BEACH EROSION THROUGHOUT THE DAY TODAY. BEACH GOERS SHOULD AVOID THE ROUGH SURF AND BE AWARE THAT AN ENHANCED RISK OF RIP TIDES WILL LINGER THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ...EXCESSIVE COLD IMPACT... A MODIFIED ARCTIC AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD INTO THE AREA TODAY...AND WILL BE ENTRENCHED OVERNIGHT. AS WINDS SLACKEN OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES WILL DROP RAPIDLY BELOW FREEZING IN ALL BUT COASTAL AREAS. PERSONS WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR PLANTS BY COVERING THEM OR BRINGING THEM INSIDE. PETS SHOULD ALSO BE BROUGHT INSIDE DURING THIS PERIOD OF COLD. EVEN THOUGH WINDS WILL SLACKEN OVERNIGHT ENOUGH WILL EXIST THAT WHEN COMBINED WITH THE COLD AIR TEMPERATURES WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS WIND CHILL VALUES. WIND CHILLS WILL BE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS IN NORTHERN COUNTIES...AND WILL BE IN THE TEENS ELSEWHERE. ANYONE VENTURING OUTSIDE OVERNIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING SHOULD DRESS IN SEVERAL WARM LAYERS...AND LIMIT EXPOSURE TO THE WIND. ...MARINE GUST IMPACT... SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 KTS WITH OCCASIONAL GALE FORCE GUSTS WILL BE IN THE OFFING TODAY IN GULF WATERS BETWEEN 20 AND 60 NM OFFSHORE WITH 9 TO 12 FT WAVES EXPECTED. NEAR SHORE WATERS WILL EXPERIENCE 20 TO 30 KT WINDS...HOWEVER GUSTS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW GALE FORCE. ...FIRE WEATHER IMPACT... VERY DRY AIR WILL COMBINE WITH WINDS IN THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE TO GENERATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ...FIRE WEATHER IMPACT... DRY AIR WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AND A PERIOD OF CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE ANTICIPATED ONCE AGAIN. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD NORTH AND EAST OF THE AREA BY LATE WEEK AND A WARMING TREND IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. CANTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2:30 AM EST | Red Flag Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter | 16 hr |
Nearby
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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.