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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 4, 20095 counties in Florida; 12 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this frost advisory at Mar 4, 2009, 1:18 PM EST for 5 counties in Florida; 12 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 5, 2009, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 2009, 1:18 PM EST (18:18 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 5, 2009, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Mar 5, 2009, 8:15 AM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Baker County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2009-03-04Temperature 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2009-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 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
1517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 7:53 PM ESTHard Freeze WarningJAXBaker, Gilchrist, Suwannee, Union12 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.