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Freeze Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this freeze warning at Dec 28, 2009, 2:29 PM CST for 16 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Dec 29, 2009, 12:00 AM CST. 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
- Dec 28, 2009, 2:29 PM CST (20:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 29, 2009, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2009, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
All 47 counties
Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1384 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Dec 28, 2:10 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 2:10 PM CST, 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 28, 4:02 AM CST, 10 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 502 AM EST MON DEC 28 2009 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161- GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-291015- COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-INLAND WALTON-COASTAL WALTON- HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-BAY-CALHOUN-GULF-FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON- JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-WAKULLA-TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-DIXIE-QUITMAN- CLAY-RANDOLPH-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-BEN HILL- IRWIN-EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-MITCHELL-COLQUITT-COOK-BERRIEN-SEMINOLE- DECATUR-GRADY-THOMAS-BROOKS-LOWNDES-LANIER- APALACHEE BAY OR COASTAL WATERS FROM KEATON BEACH TO OCHLOCKONEE RIVER FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM OCHLOCKONEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO KEATON BEACH OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 502 AM EST MON DEC 28 2009 /402 AM CST MON DEC 28 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. IN THE WAKE OF A DRY COLD FRONT EXITING SOUTH OF THE GULF STATES THIS MORNING...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD SOUTHEAST AND ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA. EXPECT DRY AND COOL CONDITIONS WITH HIGHS ONLY AROUND 50 SE ALABAMA TO THE UPPER 50S SE BIG BEND AND COASTAL SECTIONS. WITH DECREASING WINDS AND CLEARING SKIES TONIGHT...MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WILL PLUMMET TO THE MID 20S INLAND TO AROUND FREEZING AT THE COAST. A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL BUT COASTAL SECTIONS AND THIS WILL LIKELY BE UPGRADED TO A WARNING LATER TODAY. WINDS WILL NOTICEABLY INCREASE OVER THE MARINE AREA TODAY WITH ADVISORY CONDITIONS LIKELY WELL OFFSHORE AND EXERCISE CAUTION CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... CONTINUED COOL BUT EVEN DRIER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ON TUESDAY. THIS WILL FAVOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRES SHOULD ANY OCCUR. A GULF LOW WILL BEGIN TO TAKE SHAPE TO THE WEST OF THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY BRINGING RAIN CHANCES BACK TO THE FORECAST. HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AS THE LOW PASSES THROUGH THE REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE FORECAST BECOMES MORE UNCERTAIN BY LATE IN THE WEEK...BUT SOME OF THE NUMERICAL MODELS INDICATE THE POTENTIAL FOR UNSEASONABLY COLD TEMPERATURES NEXT WEEKEND WITH HIGHS IN THE NEAR 50 ON FRIDAY...IN THE LOW TO MID 40S ON SATURDAY AND MID 40S TO AROUND 50 ON SUNDAY. EXPECT FREEZING MINIMUM TEMPERATURE EACH MORNING WITH A POTENTIAL HARD FREEZE SATURDAY AND ESPECIALLY SUNDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV...THEN CLICK ON YOUR AREA OF INTEREST ON THE NATIONAL MAP. BLOCK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2:08 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 25 hr | |
| Dec 28, 11:34 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 28, 11:34 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 29 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2009Freeze Warnings in Florida, 2009Freeze Warnings in Alabama, 2009Every freeze warning in 2009
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.